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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD
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French Professor /
Professeur d’Anglais
USER’S GUIDE • MODE D’EMPLOI
BQF-2025
MAN
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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 learn how to use other books, read their
User’s Guides.
Installing Book Cards & Selecting Books ....................... 4
Using the Color Keys ..................................................... 5
Changing the Language ................................................. 5
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 6
Translating English Words ............................................. 7
Translating French Words .............................................. 8
Learning Inflections ....................................................... 8
Finding a Letter ............................................................. 9
Finding a Prefix ............................................................. 10
Correcting Misspellings ................................................. 10
Using your Personal List................................................ 11
Highlighting Words ........................................................ 12
Sending Words .............................................................. 13
Changing Game Settings ............................................... 13
Playing the Games ......................................................... 14
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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.
LISTE
(blue) Shows Personal list menu.
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
card 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.
? ✽
Types a ? to stand for an
unknown letter in a word;
shifted, types an ✽ to stand
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.
*Hold ✩ while pressing the other key.
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Installing Book Cards
Selecting Books
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card while your BOOKMAN is
turned 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 book card down
until it snaps into place.
➤ Removing Book Card
Warning: When you remove a
book card to install another,
information that you entered into the
removed book card will be erased.
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
CARTE
.
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.
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Using the Color Keys
Changing the Language
The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on
your BOOKMAN change functions according to which book is selected.
When the built-in book is selected, the
color keys function as labelled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. When a book
card is selected, the color keys function
as labelled on that book card.
Remember, the color keys for BOOKMAN books in book cards function as
labelled on their book cards, not as on
the keyboard.
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.
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Changing the Language
Viewing a Demonstration
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.
When no book card is installed in your
BOOKMAN, a demonstration automatically appears after you select this book.
EFFAC
To stop the demo, press
able it, press
able Demo
able Demo
MENU
and then select
. To re-enable it, select
.
. To dis-
When a book card is installed, select
View Demo
from the menu to view the
demo.
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at
virtually any screen by pressing
AIDE
. Press the direction keys to
read it. To exit help, press
ARR
To read a tutorial of how to use the
main functions and keys of this book,
Tutorial
select
from the Additional
Functions menu.
➤ 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.
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