Monthly Archives: June 2011

How do I read more than one version of a text at the same time?

In the last blog entry we examined the purpose of the I, P, and S icons and found that they provide a quick and easy way to examine the same text in another English translation or in Spanish.   The issue that follows from that capability is our next question:

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What are those I, P, and S icons?

We are starting to receive questions about various features of the Carmelite Digital Library (CDL).  The questions are taking on the form “What is X?” while others are “How do I do Y?”.   Most of these topics are covered in the Help files that ship with the product.  But as the Help files were written to explain or document every feature and option, the material is sometimes very dense.  To help our users we plan to answer the questions we receive using this blog.  We hope that by providing smaller and more targeted information everyone can benefit from the answers to the questions.

So here is the first question: What are those I, P, and S icons that I see on the right side at the top and bottom of a document?

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Trinity Sunday

As part of last Trinity Sunday’s homily the priest referenced the Quicumque (Athanasian Creed).   I thought I’d remembered that St. Teresa made reference to the Quicumque so I decided to use the Carmelite Digital Library to see if I could find it.  I opened the CDL, switched to the Search tab and entered “Quicumque” into the “Find:” box and pressed enter.  Sure enough my memory was right as 3 hits were found.

Searching for "quicumque"

Searching for "quicumque"

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Welcome

Welcome to the new Carmelite Digital Library Blog.

We will use this to discuss features, show uses of, and answer questions about the Library.