Electronic Publishers
French Professor/
Professeur d’Anglais
Speaking/parlant
User’s Guide/Mode d’emploi
BFS-840
™
™
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Contents
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!
BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable electronic reference with a built-in book and a
slot in the back for more books. With this
French Professor
and define more than 250,000 words, cor-
, you can now translate
rect misspellings of both French and English words, view noun, adjective, and verb
inflections, and save words to a Personal
word list for a more enjoyable way to learn.
To lear n how to use other books, read their
User’ s Guides.
Installing Batteries & Book Cards...................................4
Selecting Books & Using the Color Keys ........................5
Changing the Language ................................................. 6
Viewing a Demonstration............................................... 7
T ranslating English W ords..............................................7
T ranslating French W ords .............................................. 8
Highlighting a Word ....................................................... 9
Hearing an English Word................................................ 9
Learning Inflections ....................................................... 10
Finding a Letter ............................................................. 11
Finding a Prefix ............................................................. 11
Correcting Misspellings .................................................12
Using your Personal List................................................12
Sending a Word ............................................................. 14
Changing Game Settings ...............................................14
Playing the Games .........................................................15
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Key Guide
Function Keys
EFFAC
Clears to the Ready screen.
MENU
Shows Additional Functions menu.
CONJ
(red) Show inflections of a word.
LANG
(green) Switches between English
and French entry languages.
JEUX
(yellow) Shows the games list.
PARLE
(blue) Says an English word.
CARTE
Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF
Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
➤ Understanding the Color Keys
The color 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 color key
functions, which are labelled on their
book cards and listed in their User’ s
Guides. For more information, read
“Using the Color Keys.”
Other Keys
ARR
Backs up, erases letters, or
stops a highlight.
MAJ
Shifts keys to type punctuation.
ENTRER
Enters a search, selects a
menu item, or starts a highlight.
AIDE
Shows help messages.
ESPACE
Types a space or pages down in text.
? ✽
Types a ? to stand for an
unknown letter in a word;
shifted, types an
✽
for a series of unknown letters.
Direction Keys
Move in indicated direction.
Star Key Combinations*
CARTE
✩
+
Sends a word between
books.
✩
+ BAS Shows the next word or
inflection group.
✩
+ HT Shows the previous word
or inflection group.
L
✩
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+
*Hold
Shows the personal word list
✩
while pressing the other key .
to stand
.
Installing Batteries
Installing Book Cards
BOOKMAN model 840 uses four AAA
batteries. Here is how to install or replace them.
Warning: When the batteries lose
power or are removed from BOOKMAN,
information that you entered in its builtin book, and in an installed book card,
will be erased.
1. Turn BOOKMAN over.
2. Slide off its battery cover in
the direction of the triangle.
3. Install the batteries with their
positive sides facing you.
4. Replace the battery cover .
➤ Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn of f BOOKMAN at any
screen. When you turn BOOKMAN
on again, the screen that you last
viewed appears.
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
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.
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Selecting Books Using the Color Keys
Once you have installed a book card in
your BOOKMAN, you must select which
book you want to use.
1. T urn BOOKMAN on.
CARTE
2. Press
.
These are sample books.
3. Press
or to highlight the
book you want to use.
4. Press
ENTRER
to select it.
➤ About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this
User’s Guide may differ from what
you see on the actual screen. This
does not mean that your BOOKMAN is malfunctioning.
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.
Remember, when you select a book
card, the colour keys function as labeled
on that book card, not the keyboard.
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Changing the Message
Language
Changing theMessage Language
Message Language
▼
When you turn on this product for the
first time, you must choose the
message language. The message
language is the language of prompts,
help, and other messages. You can
change the message language after
your initial decision.
NOTE: The examples in the English half
of this manual use English as the
message language.
1. Press
MENU
if you are not at the
Message Language screen.
A
2. Press
to select the Message
Language screen.
3. Press
B
to select English as
the message language; press
A
to select French.
Entry Language
▼
The entry language is the language in
which you enter words at ready
screens. This determines which
dictionary you will use, French or
English.
1. If not at the Ready screen,
EFFAC
press
2.
Press
.
LANG
to switch between
dictionaries.
➤ Changing the Contrast
If you want to change the screen
contrast, repeatedly press or at
the blank ready screen.
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