Classical Text Reference

Under the Main Menu, you can see how to open it.

See the window, it has a number of tabs, we'll cover them below.

Notice the book is selected in a drop down menu, currently says "Saravali".

Below that, the chapters, and for the one selected, below that, the verses in that chapter, and for the one selected, below that, the text of the hilited verse. You can hilite and copy and paste elsewhere on a verse level, but not chapter or book level as per publishers requests.

These are the books, add to this, not showing, Brihat Parashara Hora Part 1, the main stuff.

On the verse level you can hilite to ease the quotation process.

You can go to the tabs here by key, since some people might use it often, we thought we'd make it easier and quicker as a look up tool.

Here, the user has entered "mula" as the search word. Notice on the right, the words mula and mulatrikona were found to match, and the verses found containing those two words are listed below, and when you click one, you get the text of that verse.

Here is where you read. This tab facilitates reading, showing a chapter at a time in a scrollable box.

And remember, ALL text fields in the program can be font and size changed within a limited range, to aid readability.

This window "instantiates" which means you can open more than one of them at a time. So you can have different search results on different windows.

JS3 makes extensive use of right click pop up menus (this can be done on Mac with CTRL-Click- but get a 2 button mouse like a PC, it's way better).

See that you can change the font and size within a limited range of choices, and some other useful things. This is found on ALL text fields throughout the program.