

The Mini Hound Tutorial
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This file gives the user a guided tour of how to use Mini Hound for several
different purposes.

To start run Mini Hound in the normal way and it will install itself on the
iconbar. Next move the mouse pointer over the iconbar icon and press the
SELECT (left) mouse button. This make a window pop up in the bottom left
corner of the screen, just above the iconbar.

Suppose we want to find an alternative word for 'alternative'. 

In the writable icon in that window type the word 'alternative' and then
press SELECT over the icon marked 'Search'. Mini Hound will then perform a
search, which should take a few seconds if you are running it from a floppy
disc, or less than a second from hard disc.

Next another window will pop up containing the following :

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|                                                  |
|  alternate    : Variation                        |
|  alternate    : Irresolution                     |
|  alternate    : Correlation                      |
|  alternate    : Sequence                         |
|  alternate    : anacoluthon                      |
|  alternate    : Oscillation                      |
|  alternate    : Periodicity                      |
|  alternating  : Changeableness                   |
|  alternative  : Substitution                     |
|  alternative  : Choice                           |
|                                                  |
| Press SELECT over an entry in the                |
| above list to view it in full.                   |
|                                                  |
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The left hand column of the list contains the exact word found in the
search, the right hand column shows the first word contained in the section
of the thesaurus which contains that word.

So in our case the search has produced two matches for 'alternative' plus
some extra matches for words which are for 'alternate' and 'alternating'.
These extra matches are just Mini Hound trying to be helpful.

Now the most likely alternative word is going to by under 'Substitution'.
Move the mouse pointer so that it is over the word 'Substitution' in the
list and press the SELECT mouse button.

After a short pause another window appears which contains the full thesaurus
entry :

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|  Rogette                                                              |
|                                                                       |
|      Substitution, commutation, supplanting, metaphor, metonymy.      |
|      substitute, ersatz, makeshift, replacement, succedaneum, shift,  |
| stopgap, dummy, scapegoat, double, alternative.                       |
|      representative, deputy, palimpsest.                              |
|      price, consideration, equivalent.                                |
|      substitute, supplant, supersede, cannibalize, commute.           |
|      substituted, ersatz, phony, vicarious, subdititious.             |
|      instead.                                                         |
|                                                                       |
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As you can see, a fair few to choose from. Moving the mouse pointer over any
of the words in this window and pressing SELECT will pass that word to the
caret, pressing ADJUST will perform a search on that word. Pressin MENU
anywhere over the window brings up a save window allowing you to save the
full entry as a text file.


As another example, suppose a word is on the tip of your tongue the 'Wild
Card' and 'Sounds Like' searches are very useful. For example if you know
your word starts with 'pref' but cant remember much else, entering 'pref*'
into the writable icon and selecting the 'Wild Card' icon produces the
following list of words :

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| Rogette                                                               |
|                                                                       |
|  preface prefatory prefect prefecture prefer preference preferential  |
|  preferment prefiguration prefigure prefigurement prefix              |
|                                                                       |
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Again pressing SELECT over any of these words passes it to the caret, ADJUST
performs a search on that word, and MENU allows you to save the list.

As aonther exapmle, type 'aperition' into the writable icon and SELECT the
'Sounds Like' icon. A list is the produced containing 'apparition',
'epuration' and 'operation'.


 
