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When you click on a title, chapter heading or other subsection of a work in
the Table of Contents, you will be presented with a page that contains the full text
of the work or of the subsection that you have selected. The view you get will be different depending on whether
you have selected to view the work using Frames view or
No Frames view. Both views and their features will be described
below.
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The default view for browsing a text is without frames, in a single window. As noted above, this view is best suited to the extended reading of a single work. All available screen space is devoted to the text, and navigational controls are located at the top and bottom of the text screen. |
Works without a little arrow to the left of the title in the Table of Contents are works that have no subsections. When you have selected such a work in the Table of Contents, you are presented with the entire text at once, starting at the title page and ending at the end of the work. You can read the work by scrolling down the page.
Works with a little arrow to the left of the title in the Table of Contents are works with subsections such as chapters, acts, scenes, epilogues, etc.
In works with subsections, you have the option of browsing the entire text
at once or of selecting individual sections to read. Viewing individual
sections may speed up download time slightly. When you reach the end of a
section, the Next and Previous links will take
you to the following or preceding sections. The Up link
will take you back to the Table of Contents page. See below for more detail.
When you click on the title of a work with subsections in the Table of Contents, you are presented with the entire text at once, starting at the title page and ending at the end of the work. As with works that have no subsections, you can read the whole text by scrolling to the end of the page.
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You can also, when viewing the subsections of a work in the Table of Contents, click on the title of a subsection. You will now see a window that contains just the text of the subsection. At the top of the page, you will see a small nested list that shows where you are in the work. This is a fragment of a table of contents, showing only the sections that contain the section that is currently displayed. In this example, we are browsing Act 1 of the play |
You can now use the navigational controls at the top and bottom of the page to move through the work.
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The Navigational Controls appear at the top and bottom of each page in the
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[Prev Text] or [Prev Section]: Click this link to move to the next section of a work, or to move to the next work in the Table of Contents.
If, having clicked on the title of a work in the Table of Contents, you are viewing a whole work, then this link will read [Prev Text], and clicking it will take you to the beginning of the previous work. You will also see the [Prev Work] link when you have clicked on the first section of a work. Attempting to move backwards will take you to the beginning of the previous text in the table of contents.
If, having clicked on the title of the section of a work, you are viewing the text of a section, then this link will read [Prev Section], and clicking it will take you to the preceding section of the same level, if there is one. If not, it will take you to the beginning of the section that contains this one. You will only see the [Prev Section] link if you have clicked on the title of the section of a work. For more information on the structure of WWP texts, see [maybe the section on Dweb?].
[Next Text] or [Next Section]: Click this link to move to the next section of a work, or to move to the next work in the Table of Contents.
If you are viewing a complete text, the [Next Text] link will take you to the next work in the Table of Contents. If you are viewing a section of a text, the [Next Section] link will take you to the next section of the work. If you are at the last section of a text, then the link will read [Next Text], and clicking it will take you to the beginning of the next work in the table of contents. For more information on the structure of WWP texts, see [maybe the section on Dweb?].
[Up]: Click this link to go back up to the Table of Contents Page.
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Clicking on this link take you to the Search page. Searches, however, will be restricted to the text that is currently being browsed. For more information on how to use the Search page, see the Search Help. |
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In Frames View, the Table of Contents and the text are visible simultaneously. You can use the Table of Contents list to select a work to read. Frames View takes a bit longer to load, because in most browsers the Frames feature is generally slower. However, if you plan to move around among many texts, or subsections of texts, and want to keep track of where you are in the whole textbase, this view may be more efficient. |
The Table of Contents frame, on the left of your browser window, behaves just like the Table of Contents page. If a work has a right-pointing arrow to the left of it, it means the work has subsections. You can click on the arrow to view the subsections. Clicking on the title of any work or section of a work will display the text of that work or section in the text frame on the right of your browser window. The title of the work or section that you are reading is highlighted in the Table of Contents. When you click on the title of a work, that subsections of that work, if it has any, are expanded in the Table of Contents list.
Note that the text display no longer has the indented list showing the title of the work and any sections that contain the current section displayed at the top of the text window. You can glean this information from the Table of Contents Window.
The navigational controls work exactly as they do in No Frames
View. In this view, however, you can see the section to which these
links will take you. Prev Section and Next
Section will move you to the next section that is at the same level
of indentation in the Table of Contents as the current one. If you are
looking at the first or last one of a series of sections at the same level,
Prev Section will take you to the beginning of the section
that contains the current section. Next Section will take you
to the beginning of the next section that is at the level of the section
that contains the current one. If you are at the first or last section of a
text, then the link will read Prev Text or Next
Text. In the Table of Contents list, the effect is of moving up or
down the list of titles.
Note that there is no Up link in Frames View, since the Table of Contents
is always visible.
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At the beginning of each work, you will see a blue box with some information about the text in it. This is not part of the original work, but serves as an electronic catalog entry, giving you information about the electronic version and the provenance of the original work. |
When you are browsing a WWP text, you will see a number of notations and markers that may not be familiar. Because they are an electronic represetantation of a physical artifact, WWP texts try to display, in a schematic fashion, some information about the physical features of the text. You can therefore see where page breaks occur and if pages are numbered, when a new signature begins and what it is called, and where there are blank pages.
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In this example, the dotted lines and [Page Break] separate two pages. The B is printed at the bottom of a page, and marks new signature, and the 2 is the page number that is printed at the top of the next page. The brown text in the page separator also gives signature information, since it is not always printed on the page. For more information on signatures and foliation, see McKerrow (??). |
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Places where there is a note in the original text are indicated by an underlined number that is a link. Clicking on the number brings up a pop-up window with the text of the note, and the type of note indicated in the title bar. Currently all notes are authorial notes. The note number is not a number that appears in the original text, but is a number assigned by the WWP for reference purposes. At the moment, all linked notes are extratextual, and appear in the margin or at the foot of a page. Notes that are at the back of a text are printed in place. |
Please note that pop-up windows are not always well behaved in all browsers. If you already have a pop-up note window open, and instead of closing it, you let it be hidden behind the main browser window, it is possible that it won't automatically come to the front the next time you click on a note link. In this case, you should move the main window aside and click on the pop-up window in order to bring it to the front so you can read the note text.
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Comments in green text are used to provide extra-textual information. This includes information about missing pages or signatures, places where the copy text was illegible, and descriptions of illustrations. |
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