Using *CAL* Programs

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USE TALKTAG first if you want to tag what your characters say, then use
Jrafetch to find your tagged text units.

talktag:        1) Download the program from the menu to a disk.
Most times a:\ is your floppy disk drive.  So at upper left of toolbar, you click
the word talktag and a dialog box opens.  Click on SAVE after you change the
directory to a: (EXAMPLE) a:\ talktag.exe

2) Download your choice of text to same disk or dir.
EX: a:\novel.txt

3) Click on the program's icon. Window below opens.   You will be prompted to enter the
name of your primary text.  Enter that name.

Then enter a name for the "destination" file that holds all the results of your search.

4) Results are sent to the same directory as where talktag.exe is
placed.

5) Check the tags that talktag automatically creates by looking at them
AFTER you get a result file.

Some tags may be wrong or mistakes and you need to run a manual
proofread of all your results. This program places tags at every speech
of every character enclosed in ("). It will only "catch" a few names. You
must enter the rest by hand, using a  list of names.

EX: <q who=John> "Hello, friends!" </q>

Jrafetch finds units of tagged text in your longer search text. You can make up
ANY tags you want, like <symbol> to manually input. OR use TAGGER above
to create speech tags.

JRA: 1) Download the program from the menu to a disk.
EX: a:\ Jrafetch.exe

2) Download your choice of text to same disk or dir.
EX: a:\alicecut.txt (a segment of Carroll's Alice in Wonderland)

3) Click on the program's icon. Enter tag names.

 
Examples of some tag names you might enter:
EX: START CITATION MARKE R= <symbol>, <comic>, <ironic>. . .
END OF CITATION MARKER = </symbol>, </comic>, </ironic>. . .

4) Enter result or output file name and location.
EX: novresult.txt or nov.outt

VB locates words and phrases in a search text of any length and doesn't
need any tags to do it!

VBPro: 1) Download the zipped set of VB programs from the menu to a
disk. Open the .zip file. Click on the main VBPro exe file's icon.

EX: a:\VBPro.exe

2) Download your choice of text to same disk or dir.
EX: a:\novel.txt

3) Click on the program's icon.

4) Note that you must run the "format" function first by clicking CTRL + F  to
create a formatted file novel.frm from unformatted  novel.txt file before VB
will search!

YOU CANNOT "CLICK ON" ANYTHING!  YOU MUST USE KEYS!!

HOLD DOWN CTRL  +  F   KEYS TO SELECT 'format' 

TYPE the number 1 for <1>   FILE TO FORMAT: 

TYPE your file's name and it will appear under the top line

It will say on top line when file is formatted.

5) SEARCH:  You will need to decide what unit of context you want around your search words or phrases.
"Sentence" places the sentence around each word you search. "Paragraph"  places a whole paragraph.
"custom" places the number of lines you specifiy.

YOU CANNOT "CLICK ON" ANYTHING!  YOU MUST USE KEYS!!

HOLD DOWN CTRL  +  S   KEYS TO SELECT 'search' 

TYPE the number 1 for <1>   FILE TO SEARCH: 

TYPE your file's name and it will appear under the top line

<B>  BEGIN SEARCH appears as a new bottom line.

 
"SEARCH LIST": gives two options:  create search file in VBPro or use an existing text file.

 
Click on 2, "CREATE FILE" to enter your words into a little text file. 
ONLY ONE WORD or PHRASE on a line.

If you use a phrase on a line, place it in ("). If you want <> angle
braces to appear in your result file around your word or phrase,
then place >><< at top of your list.

EX:                                                   
 > >< <                                                > ><<
dog                                 "the dog ran over the hill"
cat                                   "the cat ran into the alley"
fish                             "the fish swam under the bridge"

Compare3:    This program makes line comparisons from two texts.

Compare3: 1) Download the two files called Shellout and Compare3.
EX: a:\ Compare3.exe
EX: a:\ Shellout.exe

2)  Click on Shellout to open this DOS window:

Pick a text from our list of "PRIMARY TEXTS" in CAL window and download.

SAVE AS: a:\ novel.txt  (file1) 

Download a second text that you  believe holds similar lines.  Go to Project
Gutenberg and find a second text or ask instructor for a good source.

SAVE AS: a:\ novel2.txt   (file2)

Why?  This can show the influence of one writer on another or of one text on
another.
 
Command line fill-in ARGUMENTS:

Compare3 is thename of the line comparison program
file1 is the file name of your first primary text to search
file2  is the file name of your 2nd primary text to search
resultfile is the file that holds lines that are similar
<1 to 100> is the number you select  for how similar. 100 is very similar.
NOTE:   Don't use <> around the number from 1 to 100 that you pick!