The TIGERSearch User's Manual can be accessed directly within the TIGERSearch user interface. The TIGERSearch help window can be activated by pressing the Help button in the upper toolbar or selecting one of the items in the Help menu.
Figure: The TIGERSearch help window
The help window is divided into two parts: On the left there is the manual navigation area. Here you find a table of contents, an index, and a search engine. Just browse through the table of contents or through the index and click on the topic you are interested in:
Figure: Navigating through the manual
If you are looking for a special topic which you cannot find in the table of contents or in the index, you might use the search engine. Just type in your search item(s) and the search engine finds all topics in which one of the items is used:
Figure: The help window search engine
The help window toolbar comprises the following buttons: The Navigation button lets you hide/show the navigation bar. The Back and Forward buttons let you navigate through the topics you have viewed before. The Refresh button reloads a topic, and the Close button closes the help window.
Corpus queries are displayed as green-colored hyperlinks. If you click on a query hyperlink, the query text is automatically copied into the query text editor of the TIGERSearch main application.