Guide to the Web Interface

This page provides a guide to the features of the Open Shakespeare web interface.

The Index

The text index page contains a list of all of the material on the system.

Viewing Works

You can view works by clicking on the link available from the index page. If you know the 'id' of a text you can view it directly by visiting the url: ${h.url_for(controller='text', action='view', name='id')} (you can work out id names by looking at the link urls on the index page).

Viewing in different formats

You can view a given text in a different format by setting the format argument in the url query string like so:

      ${h.url_for(controller='text', action='view', name='id', format='format_name')}
    

So to view Hamlet with line numbers shown you would visit:

${h.url_for(controller='text', action='view', name='hamlet_gut', format='lineno')}

Available formats are:

Multiviews

You can view mutiple texts at once by concatenating the name-ids separated by '+'. For example to see the Gutenberg folio and non-folio Othello side-by-side you would visit: ${h.url_for(controller='text', action='view', name='othello_gut_f othello_gut')}

Search

See the search section.

Stats

See the stats section.

Comments

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