This page provides a guide to the features of the Open Shakespeare web interface.
The text index page contains a list of all of the material on the system.
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).
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:
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')}
See the search section.
See the stats section.
If you wish to comment on this guide (or help improve it!) please drop a line to the Open Shakespeare team via at info [at] okfn [dot] org.