Franklin Perito Ingles Portuguese Expert DBP-2076 User manual

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Electronic Publishers
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EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK
B OO K MAN
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PeritoInglês
PortugueseExpert
MANUAL DO USUÁRIO
USER’S GUIDE
DBP-2076
www.franklin.com

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Contents
Key Guide .................................................................................... 22
Introduction ................................................................................. 23
Installing Book Cards ................................................................... 23
Selecting a Book .......................................................................... 24
Using the Colour Keys ................................................................. 24
Setting the Message Language ..................................................... 25
Viewing a Demonstration ............................................................. 25
Changing Other Settings .............................................................. 26
Changing the Entry Language ....................................................... 26
Looking Up Words ........................................................................ 27
Highlighting a Word to Look Up .................................................... 28
Finding English Inflections ........................................................... 29
Finding a Letter in a Word ............................................................ 30
Finding a Series of Letters ........................................................... 30
Correcting Misspellings ............................................................... 31
Using the Personal Word Lists ..................................................... 31
Changing the Game Settings ........................................................ 33
Playing the Games ....................................................................... 33
Sending Words Between Books .................................................... 35
Resetting Your BOOKMAN ........................................................... 35
Keyboard Translator ..................................................................... 36
Copyrights and Patents ................................................................ 36
Book Card Care ........................................................................... 38

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Key Guide
Color Keys
CONJ
(red) Displays inflections of
English words.
L
Í
NG
(green) Switches between
English and Portuguese languages.
JOGO
(yellow) Lists the games.
(blue) Lists your personal words.
Function Keys
AJUDA
Displays a help message.
APAG
Clears the Entry screen.
CART
Exits the book you are reading.
ENTRAR
Enters a word, selects an item,
or begins a highlight in an entry.
Types a space or pages down.
LI/DE
Turns the BOOKMAN on or off.
MAI
Ú
S
Shifts keys to type capitals and
punctuation.
MENU
Displays the main menus.
TR
Á
S
Backs up, erases a letter, or
turns off the highlight at an entry.
? ✽
At the Entry screen, types a ? to
stand for a letter in a word. At menu,
displays a menu item. At a dictionary
entry, displays the headword.
BAIX
E
PREV
➤ Understanding the Colour Keys
The red, green, yellow, and blue colour
keys only perform the list of functions for
the book card installed in your BOOK-
MAN and described in this User’s Guide.
All book cards use their colour key functions.
The key labels and functions are listed in their
own User’s Guide. Read “Using the Colour
Keys”for further information.
* Hold the first key while pressing the other key.
LISTA
ESPAÇO
SEG
Direction Keys
Scrolls in a direction.
or Accents a typed letter.
or
CIMA
Pages up or down.
Key Combinations*
✩
+
CART
Sends a word between books.
✩
+ Displays the next or previous
or word inflection group.
✩
+
Q
-
P
Types a number.
✩
+ Types a hyphen.
MAI
Ú
S
+ Goes to the top or bottom of
or an entry or menu.
MAI
Ú
S
+
? ✽
Types an ✽to stand for a
series of letters in a word.

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Installing Book Cards
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card while your BOOKMAN is on.
Any information that was entered in the
built-in book or book card will be erased.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs on the book card
with the notches in the slot.
4. Press the book card down until
it snaps into place.
➤ Removing Book Cards
You can use the Portuguese Expert (Perito
Inglês) to translate words, correct
misspelled English and Portuguese words,
create two personal word lists, and view
English inflections. After reading the
User’s Guide you will be able to use the
dictionary’s powerful features, as well as
play its five word games.
Introduction
➤Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn your BOOKMAN off at
any screen, and when you turn it on
again the last screen viewed reap-
pears.
➤Follow the Arrows
Holding down the flashing arrow keys on
the right of the screen let’s you scroll
through text and highlight words.

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On the top row of your BOOKMAN the
red, green, yellow, and blue colour keys
change functions according to the book
card you select.
If you are using the built-in book, the
colour keys function as labeled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. If you select a
book card, the colour keys function as
labeled on that book card.
Selecting a Book Using the Colour Keys
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Remember, when you select a book
card, the colour keys function as labeled
on that book card, not the keyboard.
Once a book card is installed in the
BOOKMAN, then you select which book
you want to use.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN on.
2. Press
CART
.
These are sample books.
3. Press or to highlight the
book you want to use.
4. Press
ENTRAR
to select it.
Note: The Portuguese section of
this manual uses the Portuguese
language as the message language
for screen examples.

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Viewing a Demonstration
Setting the Message Language
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at any
screen by pressing
AJUDA
. Use the
Direction keys to read all of the
message. To exit help, press
TR
Á
S
.
To read about what the keys do,
select
Auto-Lição from the
Configuraçao menu and press
ENTRAR
.
Before you start using this book, you
may want to view a demonstration of
its features.
Once you have installed and selected
this book card, follow these steps:
1. Press
MENU
.
2. Press or to highlight the
Setup menu.
3. Press
to highlight View
Demo.
4. Press
ENTRAR
to view the demon-
stration.
5. To stop the demonstration,
press
APAG
.
Setting the Message Language
The message language is the language
of the prompts, the screen instructions,
menu items, and help messages. The
first time you use the Portuguese Expert,
this screen appears:
• To select Portuguese as the
message language, press
A
.
• To select English as the
message language, press
B
.
Changing the Message Language
Once the message language is set, it’s
easy to switch to another language. To
change the message language from
Portuguese to English:
1. Press
MENU
to go to the main menus.
2. Using the arrow keys, high-
light the Configuraçao menu.
3. Scroll down to Message
Language and press
ENTRAR
.
To change the message language
back to English, select
Idioma da
Mensagem
from the Setup menu.

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Changing Other Settings
You can change the type size, screen
contrast, and shutoff time of this book.
The shutoff time is how long your
BOOKMAN remains on if you forget to
turn it off.
1. Press
MENU
.
2. Use or to highlight the
Configuraçao menu.
3.
Press to highlight Fixar
Tamanho do Tipo, Prazo de
Desligamento, or Fixar Contraste.
4. Press
ENTRAR
.
5. Press or to change the
setting.
To leave the settings unchanged,
press
TR
Á
S
.
6. Press
ENTRAR
.
Changing the Entry Language
The entry language is the language in
which you type words to look up. You
can change the language at the Entry
screen or the main menus.
1. Press
APAG
to go to the Entry
screen, if needed.
2. Press
L
Í
NG
(GREEN) to change
the entry language from
English to Portuguese.
3. Press
MENU
to go to the main
menus.
4. Press
L
Í
NG
(GREEN) to change
the entry language back to
Portuguese.

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Looking Up Words Looking Up Words
You can translate English words to
Portuguese and Portuguese words to
English simply by typing a word.
1. Press
APAG
.
2.
Press
L
Í
NG
( GREEN ) to change the
entry language to Portuguese.
3. Type a word. For example,
type hoje.
To erase a letter press
TR
Á
S
.
4. Press
ENTRAR
.
The word typed in boldface at the top
of a dictionary entry is the headword.
This is followed by the word’s part-of-
speech or gender in italics, as well as
any guide phrases or word categories
in parentheses.
5. Use the Direction keys to read
the dictionary entry.
6. To see the headword of the
entry, press
? ✽
.
7. Press
APAG
when finished.
➤ Typing Accents and Diacritical Marks
You do not need to type accent and
diacritical marks when you are entering
words at the entry screen. They will be
added automatically. However, if you
type a word which has two forms that
are accented differently, (for example,
pelo, pêlo) just highlight the form that
you want and press
ENTRAR
.
If you want to type an accent or diacritical
mark in a word, first type the desired
letter (for example,
e ) and then press
or until the correct mark appears.
➤ Using the Direction Keys
Here are the ways to move around in the
dictionary entries.
To... Press...
Go to the next or previous
✩
+
dictionary entry or
Go to the top or bottom
MAI
Ú
S
+
of a dictionary entry or
Page up or down
BAIX
or
CIMA

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Looking Up Words
Another way to search for words is by
highlighting them in dictionary entries or
word lists. Then you can look up their
definitions, and inflections, or add them to
your personal word list. Note: If you look up
a word in a language other than the current
entry language, the entry language is
temporarily changed to the other language.
When you press
APAG
or
MENU
, the
selected entry language is restored.
1. At any text, press
ENTRAR
to start
the highlight.
To turn the highlight off, press
TR
Á
S
.
2.
Use the arrow keys to highlight a word.
3. Do one of the following.
To... Press...
Define the word
ENTRAR
View inflections (English)
CONJ
(RED)
Add the words to your
LISTA
(BLUE)
personal word list
➤ Using the Dictionary List
Rather than entering words at the
entry screen, you can also search the
dictionary list for words to look up.
First press
MENU
. Then start typing a
word at the dictionary list. To erase a
letter, press
TR
Á
S
.
When the word you want is high-
lighted, press
ENTRAR
to view its
dictionary entry. You can also use the
Direction keys to help you highlight
words on the dictionary list.
Highlighting a Word
to Look Up