You have just completed a sampling of what Smart Characters has to offer. Don't
stop here. There are many more happy hours to be spent exploring the word
processor alone. But first,
complete the installation(1-
8)
by registering your license. Here's a checklist of things to explore:
Explore the menus and dialogs using the help system by highlighting a menu
item and pressing F1, or selecting Help in a dialog box.
Customize Smart Characters to avoid future conflicts when sharing
documents by
Installing a User Font(8-
4).
Get an Internet e-mail address and install the capability of sending and
receiving embedded binary files within e-mail messages, but avoid wasting hours
of time with excessive internet news group reading or indiscriminate Web
surfing! Use the Zip program to archive your
user dictionary(4-
7)
and
user fonts(8-
3)
into a
Zip archive file(D-
-
9),
then e-mail the archive as an embedded binary file attachment to Apropos
Customer Service so we know your address. See
Updates via Email(11-
3).
Import and export documents in other file formats: send a
simplified(4-
10)
GB or HZ, traditional Big5, Japanese JIS, or Escape-JIS e-mail message to
someone. Turn off annotations and send a Chinese or Japanese fax to a friend.
Import an interesting document from a Chinese or Japanese Internet news
group and annotate it by hand. Make a
vocabulary lesson(D-
-
8)
from the unfamiliar words, practice the lesson, and read the document aloud
without annotations. Extract and add to the lesson any words you stumbled over,
and repeat. If you will be doing this frequently, consider the
ScAnnotate Automatic Annotator(11-
2).
Explore
OLE (Object Linking and Embedding)(D-
-
5)
by embedding or linking objects into Smart Characters documents, and embedding
or linking Smart Characters text into other applications. Try inserting a
rectangle of vertical writing into the margins of a page.
Reveal hidden codes by selecting View | Codes to invoke the
Show Codes(3-
8)
command.
Use the Windows Character Map and the Alt+keypad numbers to insert
extended accented roman characters into your document, and observe the
automatically-added ^\
Literal Code(5-
9).
Use the
symbol set view(8-
1)
window to find unknown characters in an interesting newspaper or magazine
article. Make a vocabulary list, then a lesson, and memorize the lesson, then
read the article again. Can you read it fluently?
Consider whether to accelerate character lookup by installing the optional
radical and stroke(4-
8)
dictionary, and/or a scanner plus a Asian language optical character
recognition program.
Set up and customize the incremental match method of entering
hanzi, and explore installing your favorite front end processor.
Optionally, install the Chinese
Simplified Characters(4-
10)
accessory. Experiment with selecting simplified characters using the
FormatSymbol Set(3-
24)
command, and by registering then changing the typeface names.
Read
Use Other Fonts(8-
5)
and install fonts from other Chinese and Japanese word processors into Smart
Characters.
Open and examine the help file Sc\System\Sc_Help.doc, read
Writing Hypertext(12-
1),
and create a
hypertext(D-
-
4)
document. Consider installing the
unlimited file size editing(4-
3)
accessory to be able to read and write any size file.
Locate and print the
Intermediate Tutorials and go through the lessons there:
Making a Vocabulary Lesson page 2.
Search and Replace page 5. See the
Replace(3-
14)
command.
Use your PC to Master Japanese and Chinese