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The Linguistic Field Manual and Grammar Outline for Shoebox 4 and later
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This folder contains files that attempt to step people
through the process of analyzing the morphosyntax of any language.

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Setup Procedure

To make your own grammar outline with Shoebox, proceed as follows:

1. Make a folder where you wish to maintain your grammar outline. 
For example, in Windows you might make a C:\Ublek\Ling folder. 
(Don't keep your data under the Shoebox folder, where the program 
and sample linguistic files will be updated the next time you 
upgrade Shoebox.) 

2. From the Shoebox\Ling folder, copy these files to your 
data folder:
    Grammar.db
    Bibliog.db  (*)
    LingManl.db (*)
(* These should never be modified and so technically don't need to
be copied, but it is simpler to copy them all if you have disk space.)
From the Shoebox\Ling folder, copy these files to your
"My Shoebox Settings" folder (MYSHSET in Win 3.1):
    Analysis.prj
    Bibliogr.typ 
    GramNote.typ
    LingNote.typ
If English.lng is not already in "My Shoebox Settings", you 
should copy it as well.

3. Open the project Analysis.prj in your "My Shoebox Settings" 
folder (MYSHSET in Win 3.1). (From the Shoebox menu, use 
Project-Open.)
Shoebox should prompt you because the project files have 
been moved. You must navigate to your data folder to open 
the databases you copied there. 
NOTE: If Shoebox did not prompt you to find the Grammar 
database, you must close it and open your copied 
database, navigating to your data folder. Be sure you do 
not open the Grammar.db database in the Shoebox\Ling folder.

4. Before you start to enter vernacular data in the grammar outline,
customize the data field for vernacular examples to use the 
appropriate language encoding:
a. Choose Project, Database types from the Shoebox menu.
b. Select Grammar Outline.
c. Choose Modify.
d. Select \xv example-vernacular.
e. Choose Modify.
f. Select the appropriate language encoding.
g. Choose OK, OK, Close.

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Using the Field Manual and Grammar Outline

For more information on the helps themselves, go to the first record
in the LINGMANL.DB database. Terse instructions can also be found in
a record called INSTRUCTIONS in the GRAMMAR.DB file.

This analysis/helps system is designed so that the GRAMMAR.DB database
file becomes the repository of all your data. It is expected that you 
would work in the GRAMMAR.DB entering any relevant data, answers to 
questions found in the Linguistic Helps database. Use the jump feature
of Shoebox (right-click on the cross-reference) to jump to 
information, helps, and questions in the manual that pertain to the 
outline topic you are working on in the GRAMMAR.DB file.

You should NEVER put language data in the LINGMANL database itself. 
It is intended as a reference only. It is already a very large 
database (nearly 1 Megabyte), and using it to store your data will 
result in a very unwieldy file, and you would find your data becoming 
difficult to locate in amongst all of the reference information. 
The GRAMMAR.DB outline file is nearly empty except for the needed 
cross-reference information and section headings. 

Be sure not to change any Manual or Grammar Outline fields that are 
marked as "No word wrap". If Shoebox is sets to wrap these fields or 
set to display them with a proportional spaced font, all of the 
interlinear examples in the manual will be messed up. The Manual and 
the Grammar Outline use two separate (but identical) "TYP" files. 
This is to give you freedom and flexibility to tweak your grammar 
outline field markers to meet your needs without fear that your 
tweaks will corrupt the Manual. (But you are still advised not to 
change the "no wrap" fields, like \cf, in order to keep the cross-
reference outlines aligned.)

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The user of this system is asked to keep in mind that it is a 
preliminary version, distributed as an example and for the purpose 
of user feedback. If you should find yourself modifying the helps or 
the grammar outline in any way, please take the time to send a note to:

       Linguistic Field Manual Development Team Coordinator Intl.
       Linguistics Department
       7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd
       Dallas, TX  75236
       USA 

In the note, describe the changes you made and why you made them. 
This will be a tremendous help as the final version of the system 
is developed.

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FILES INCLUDED:
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ANALYSIS.PRJ    Shoebox Project file for loading this stuff
LINGMANL.DB     Linguistic Field Manual and Helps Database
BIBLIOG.DB      Bibliography database of references cited in the above
GRAMMAR.DB      Grammar outline database of the Linguistic Field Manual
LINGNOTE.TYP    SH database type file for the Manual database
BIBLIOGR.TYP    SH database Type file for the Bibliography database
GRAMNOTE.TYP    SH database type file for the Grammar Outline
LMREADME.TXT    This file