Franklin DMQ-2016 User manual

Dictionary
QUEEN’S ENGLISH
& Thesaurus

DMQ-2016
USER’S GUIDE
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Electronic Publishers
www.franklin.com

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Contents
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!
BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable elec-
tronic reference with a built-in book and
a slot in the back for more books. With
this
Dictionary & Thesaurus you can find
over 83,000 dictionary entries and
41,000 thesaurus entries with 496,000
synonyms, correct misspellings, save
words to your User list, and play three
fun, educational word games. To learn
how to use other books, read their
User’s Guides.
Installing Cards ................................................................................... 4
Selecting Books ................................................................................... 4
Using the Colour Keys ......................................................................... 5
Changing Settings ............................................................................... 5
Viewing a Demonstration .................................................................... 6
Finding Definitions .............................................................................. 6
Finding Words in Definitions ............................................................... 7
Correcting Misspellings ....................................................................... 7
Reviewing Words ................................................................................. 8
Finding a Letter ................................................................................... 8
Finding a Series of Letters .................................................................. 9
Finding Synonyms ............................................................................... 9
Finding Confusables™ ......................................................................... 10
Highlighting Words .............................................................................. 11
Using the User List .............................................................................. 11
Sending Words .................................................................................... 13
Changing Game Settings ..................................................................... 13
Playing the Games ............................................................................... 14
Copyrights & Patents ........................................................................... 16
Limited Warranty (U.S. only) ............................................................... 17
Index .................................................................................................... 18

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Function Keys
CLEAR Clears to
Enter your word .
MENU Shows the main menus.
THES
(red) Shows the synonym list(s).
CONF
(green) Shows Confusables™list.
GAMES
(yellow) Shows the games list.
LIST (blue) Shows the User list menu.
CARD Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
Key Guide
Other Keys
BACK
Backs up, erases letters, or
stops a highlight.
CAP
Shifts keys to type punctuation.
ENTER
Enters a search, selects a
menu item, or starts a highlight.
HELP
Shows help messages.
SPACE
Types a space or pages down.
Types a ? to stand for an
unknown letter in a word;
shifted, types an
✽ to stand
for a series of unknown letters.
Arrow Keys
Move up or down in text or
lists; darken or lighten contrast
at the Entry screen.
Move left or right.
Star Key Combinations*
✩
+
CARD
Sends a word between books.
✩
+
DN
Shows the next match.
✩
+
UP
Shows the previous match.
✩
+ Types a hyphen.
➤ Understanding the Colour Keys
The colour keys (red, green, yellow,
and blue) perform the functions listed
above only for the BOOKMAN book
described in this User’s Guide.
Other books have their own colour
key functions, which are labelled on
their cards and listed in their User’s
Guides. For more information, read
“Using the Colour Keys.”
* Hold
✩
while pressing the other key .
✽
?

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Warning: Never install or remove a
book card when BOOKMAN is on. If
you do, information that you entered
in its built-in book, and in an installed
book card, will be erased.
1. Turn BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs on the book
card with the notches in the
slot.
4. Press the card down until it
snaps into place.
Installing Cards
➤ Removing Cards
Warning: When you remove a
card to install another, information
that you entered into the removed
card will be erased.
➤Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off BOOKMAN at
any screen. When you turn
BOOKMAN on again, the screen
that you last viewed appears.
Selecting Books
Once you have installed a book card
in your BOOKMAN, you must select
which book you want to use.
1. Turn BOOKMAN on.
2. Press CARD .
These are sample books.
3. Press or to highlight the
book you want to use.
4. Press
ENTER
to select it.

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Using the Colour Keys
The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on
your BOOKMAN change functions ac-
cording to which book is selected.
When the built-in book is selected, the
colour keys function as labelled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. When a book
card is selected, the colour keys func-
tion as labelled on that card.
Remember, the colour keys for
BOOKMAN book cards function as
labelled on their cards, not as on the
keyboard.
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You can adjust the font size, shutoff time,
and screen contrast. The font size changes
the number of lines of text that appear on
screen. The shutoff time is how long BOOK-
MAN stays on if you forget to turn it off.
1. Press
MENU
.
2. Press the arrow keys to highlight
the Setup menu.
3. Highlight Set Font, Set Shutoff, or
Set Contrast.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Highlight a setting.
Or press and if you selected Set
Contrast
.
6. Press
ENTER
to select it.
Changing Settings
➤ About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this User’s
Guide may differ from what you see on
screen. This does not mean that your
BOOKMAN is malfunctioning.

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Before you begin, you may want to see
a brief demonstration of how to use
this book. Simply install the book card
and then follow these steps.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Use the arrow keys to high-
light the Setup menu.
3. Press to highlight View
Demo.
4. Press
ENTER
to start the
demonstration.
5. To stop the demonstration,
press
CLEAR
.
Viewing a Demonstration
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at
virtually any screen by pressing
HELP
Press to read it. To exit help, press
BACK
or
HELP
.
➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows on the right of
the screen show which arrow keys
you can press to move around
menus or view more text.
Finding Definitions
➤Browsing the Dictionary
While in a definition, hold
✩
and
press
DN
to view the next dictio-
nary definition. To view the
previous one, hold
✩
and press
UP
. Dictionary entries are not
always in alphabetical order.
You can find definitions by typing a
word at the Entry screen and then
pressing
ENTER
. Try this example.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
This is the Entry screen.
2. Type a word (e.g., acumen).
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Press or
SPACE
to move down.

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Search for a Word lets you find all of
the definitions in which a specific word
appears.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press
MENU
.
3. Select Search for a word from
the Other menu.
4. Type a word (e.g., legal).
5. Press
ENTER
.
6. Hold
✩
and press
DN
to view
the next definition that
includes your word.
To view the previous one, hold
✩
and press
UP
.
7. Press or
SPACE
to move down.
8. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Finding Words in Definitions Correcting Misspellings
If you misspell a word, don’t worry. It
will be corrected automatically.
1. Type a misspelled word.
To erase a letter, press
BACK
.
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Press to highlight a
correction, if needed.
4. Press
ENTER
to view its
dictionary entry.
To go back to the correction list,
press
BACK
.
5. Press
CLEAR
when finished.

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Reviewing Words
The Path list lets you review the last
15 words you looked up. Your Path
list is automatically saved between
sessions until the batteries lose
power.
1. Select View Path list from the
Other menu.
This is a sample Path list. If you
haven’t looked up any words, you
see:
Path is empty .
2. Press to highlight a word.
3. Press
ENTER
to define it.
4. Press
THES
(red) to view a
thesaurus entry or
CONF
(green) to view its
Confusables, if any.
If you are uncertain about a letter in a
word, type a question mark in place of
each unknown letter.
1. Type a word with ?’s.
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Highlight a match.
4. Press
ENTER
to define it.
5. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Finding a Letter
➤ Spelling Finding Tips
You can also use ? ’s to help solve
crossword puzzles. For example, if
the second letter of a five-letter word
is
h and its last letter is w . Enter
?h??w to see possible answers.

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To find prefixes, suffixes, and other
parts of words, type an asterisk in a
word. Asterisks stand for a series of
letters. NOTE: If you type an asterisk
at the beginning of a word, it may take
a while to find the matching words.
1. Type a word with an ✱.
To type an asterisk, hold
CAP
and press
? ✻
.
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Highlight a match, if needed.
4. Press
ENTER
to define it.
5. Press
BACK
to go back.
Or press
CLEAR
when finished.
Finding a Series of Letters Finding Synonyms
When you see flash once in the
upper right of the screen, that word
has a thesaurus entry.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type a word (e.g., splendid).
3. Press
THES
(red).
This is the first synonym list.
4. Press or
SPACE
to move down.
5. Hold
✩
and press to view
the next synonym list.
To return to the previous synonym
list, hold
✩
and press .
6. Press
CLEAR
when finished.