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Choose which key triggers Scribis searches:  SPACE  TAB

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Warning for tablets and other touch devices:
a) automatic suggestion is activated by tapping inside the editor.
b) activate the full screen view by clicking on the button located in the menu at the top left

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Scribis Matrix in short (for those in a hurry and want to try immediately):

1) Type or paste the text you want in the editor (I recommend a sentence or at least 3-10 words)

2) Click on MATRIX button. Most words in the editor become darker and bolder

3) Click now on any of the bold words. You will see that the word you clicked and a number of those that follow it (default is 6, but you can change it), will generate arrays of related words depending on the active thesaurus.

4) From now on, you can continue to generate matrices by clicking on any bold word in the editor.

Watch the Video guide for a brief introduction

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A screenshot of Scribis Matrix:

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What is Scribis Matrix. Features and functions

Scribis Matrix is ​​a new tool of the Scribis Project that allows you to generate word matrices. The goal is to help you in the writing process by promoting productive and combinatorial thinking. With the Scribis matrices you will have a synoptic view of the possible variations that the words you have written manage to generate. So you can consider different ways of expressing concepts and images.

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Scribis Matrix is quick and easy: write your text, then, when you feel the need to make a review or explore new possibilities, click on MATRIX. You will see that the button turns yellow and many of the words you have typed change color, becoming black. By clicking on any of these, Scribis will generate the matrices of the word you have clicked and some of the following (and these in turn will change color to blue). Some clarifications:

1) you can get different matrices based on the dictionary you set: by default the dictionary that returns results is the Word2vec one, but by clicking on the others you will get a different matrix for each dictionary. Remember that the active dictionary is indicated with a yellow background (see below for more information on dictionaries)

2) you can choose the range of words to focus on (from 3 to 8, default is 6)

3) you can continue to generate matrices by clicking on any other word (which will become the first of the series of the new matrix)

4) the order of the head words of the matrix may sometimes not be that of the text for reasons of rapid response of the database; if it is important for you to respect the sequence of words, just recycle to get the right order

5) If you write new text, you will need to click again MATRIX to make the last words clickable

6) Once you don't need the matrix anymore you have two ways to remove it:

• By clicking on MATRIX - - In this way the words will remain clickable, you can immediately regenerate matrices (if you write new words, however, you will have to recycle on the button if you want the last ones to be clickable too)
• By clicking on - In this other way, the words are no longer clickable, Scribis Matrix is ​​temporarily suspended; you will have to press again MATRIX if you want to make them clickable again

And it does not end here! You will immediately notice that even the words inside the matrix are clickable. In fact, if you click on any of these words, you will be able to see in the upper window of the right column further suggestions from other dictionaries, thesauri and phrase database (by default the database of phrases is set which returns short sentences. See after further reading on this function, meanwhile I can tell you that in this case Scribis will look for sentences that contain the word clicked plus the head word of the matrix column). Here is the example screen:

The window to take notes

To complete the explanation of the windows you see on the Scribis Matrix page, the lower window of the right column is a space designed to take temporary notes that you can still save and resume later or whose contents you can copy with a click on the clipboard and then paste them in any of your other programs

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Explanation of other functions - Top left menu buttons

Here is a brief presentation of the Scribis functions, with the explanation of each button. Let's start from the top left menu:

to switch to full screen view, recommended for touch devices and for all those with small screens

Copy the text to the clipboard. Remember that when a matrix is ​​active, the "COPY" function is disabled. Press the button MATRIX or - to close the matrix and make the "COPY" function active again

clears all content within the editor

SAVE saves what you wrote in the editor in simple TXT format in the default folder (check your browser settings). Remember that when a matrix is ​​active, "SAVE" is disabled. Press the button MATRIX or - to close the matrix and make the "SAVE" function active again

 imports a text file (for example one that you saved with the Scribis Matrix). I advise you not to upload texts over 1 MB. Remember that when an array is active, the "IMPORT FILE" function is disabled. Press the button MATRIX or - to close the matrixand make "IMPORT FILE" active again

- Deactivate the Matrix function, the text returns to normal, the words are no longer clickable

MATRIX makes most words clickable allowing then to generate the matrices by clicking on any word among bold ones (the others will remain gray)

3 4 5 6 7 8 allows you to choose the range of words (from 3 to 8) you can work

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Bottom left menu buttons

Let's now illustrate the bottom menu always in the left column. Here we have the dictionaries from which you can get the matrices. Given a matrix, you can immediately generate another by clicking on one of the following buttons

W2V is the Word2vec dictionary, generated by neural networks from a corpus of literary texts selected by project Gutenberg

SYN is a dictionary of synonyms

COL is a dictionary of collocations: most frequent words associated with a given word

ROG is for ROGET'S THESAURUS (old edition)

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Top right menu buttons

Here we are now describing the menu located at the top of the right column. Here we have the dictionaries or the database of phrases that will return you the results in the window just below. The yellow background indicates the dictionary or database currently active. They return the results both as you type in the editor and by clicking on the words that are inside the generated matrices

WV is the Word2vec dictionary, generated by neural networks starting from a corpus of literary texts. It is halfway between a synonym dictionary and an analog dictionary

SN is a dictionary of synonyms

CL is a dictionary of collocations: most frequent words associated with a given word

TH is MOBY THESAURUS, a lexical database created by Grady Ward

A is a database of sentences of excellent literary value (a selected corpus from Gutenberg Project)

- stops Scribis results

clears all content within the window

We just have to talk about the last menu, the one at the bottom in the right column where there is space for any notes. So let's see the buttons and their functions

copy the currently active note to the clipboard (in yellow)

save the currently active note (yellow) in file (plain text .TXT)

delete the content of the currently active note (yellow)

Beyond Scribis Matrix

To see other Scribis editors that best suits your needs, see also:

Scribis 3.0 is the main editor of the Scribis Project. It allows to work in one place with many language tools. Based on the last words typed or dictated in the editor, Scribis will suggest words, synonyms, phrases instantly and pertinently. You can choose to work with dictionaries of synonyms, collocations, thesauri like Roget's Thesaurus, Moby Thesaurus, Wordnet and other lexical databases generated by neural networks and databases of sentences selected from classic novels

With Scribis Thesauri you can work with Thesauri like Wordnet, Moby and Roget's Thesaurus, Dictionaries of synonyms, collocations and other language tools

With Scribis Thesauri plus you can work with Thesauri, Dictionaries and Databases of sentences selected from classic novels, dramas and poems. You can also automatically generate the wordclouds of the results offered by the database to obtain a visual representation of the keywords

Visual-Thesaurus is a project connected to Scribis with Visual Dictionaries and Thesauri, Brainstorming Tools, Word Cloud Generators

Contacts and other useful links

- HOME PAGE of the Scribis Project
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- Italian version of the Scribis Project
- For more information, to request new databases and functions, to report bugs, to collaborate on the project: scribisonline@gmail.com
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