THESAURUS HELP

The thesaurus is for finding synonyms for Spanish and English words and phrases.  Please note that, right now, the thesaurus can only return SYNONYMS, not antonyms.  Support for antonyms is planned for the future.


Click the 'Thesaurus' tab.


SAVE TO FILE:
The 'Save To File' feature is a quick and easy way to save retrieved thesaurus results to a plain text file.  Simply click the 'Save To File' button, select a file name to save to, and click 'Ok'.  The thesaurus matches found for the selected word or term will be saved to file for your future reference.

SPANISH:
Click the 'Spanish' option if the word or term you are searching for is in Spanish.

ENGLISH:
Click the 'English' option if the word or term you are searching for is in English.

WORD  / PHRASE:
The 'Word / Phrase:' text field is where you type in the word or term you wish to lookup in the thesaurus.  You can also select previously used words and terms from the drop-down list.  The drop-down list stores a 'history' of up to 30 previously used words and terms.

FIND SYNONYMS:
Clicking the 'Find Synonyms!' button tells Pythool to search for the word or term you have entered in the 'Word / Phrase:' field (described above).  Pythool will display any matches believed to be possible synonyms for your word or term.

SPANISH LETTERS TOOLBAR:
The Spanish Letters Toolbar contains several commonly-used, accented Spanish letters, not generally found on standard American keyboards.  Clicking one of the letters on the Spanish Letters Toolbar will insert that accented letter into the 'Word / Phrase:' text field at the cursor position.  This feature has been provided to help eliminate the need for an external 'character map' application.


SEARCHING THE THESAURUS:
The steps for searching the thesaurus are very simple:

1.  Type in the word or term you wish to search for into the 'Word / Phrase:' text field, or select a previously used verb or term from the drop-down list.

2.  Use the Spanish Letters Toolbar, as needed, to insert accented Spanish letters into the 'Word / Phrase:' text field.

3.  Select the appropriate language for the word or term you entered in Step #1.  If the word or phrase you are searching for is in Spanish, select the 'Spanish' option.  Otherwise, select the 'English' option. You may search for either English or Spanish synonyms, but not both at the same time.

4.  Click the 'Find Synonyms!' button.   Any thesaurus results matching your word or term will be displayed in the thesaurus window.

5.  If you wish to save the thesaurus matches for this search to a file, click the 'Save To File' button, enter a file name, and click 'Ok'.  Your thesaurus matches for the selected word or phrase will be saved for your future reference.

6.  If you are running a Linux/Unix version of Pythool, and have an LRPng/LPR-based spooler system on your computer, you may print the results by clicking 'File', then 'Print...' on the Pythool main menu.  (Sorry, Windows users!)   See 'Help' --> 'Help...' on the menu for more information on printing in Pythool.

If you have the Festival text-to-speech extension installed and usable, you may hear the words pronounced by clicking the light blue 'Play' button, generally located to the left of your screen.  Click 'Help' -> 'Festival Text-to-Speech Help...' on the menu for more information.