Lookup Tool

We offer a simple tool to enable you to carry out AND lookups when you are visiting other sites that have Anglo-Norman material on display. You can also use it with pages on the ANH site if you wish; and if you have any local Open Office or Word documents containing Anglo-Norman terms, you can use it with those, too: simply save the document concerned as html, then load the resulting html version into your browser with this tool installed.

The tool takes the form of a "personal bookmark" icon in your browser. If the site you are visiting displays the text as html text (rather than as, say, a graphical image or a pdf file), you can highlight any word that interests you, then click on the icon to look it up in the AND. If, however, the text is displayed as a graphic or a pdf within the browser, you can still click on the lookup icon without highlighting anything first. You will then be given a dialogue box into which to type your search term.

Unlike some similar tools of this type, the AND tool will generally find a term you have highlighted on a web site page even if that site uses frames. However, IE6 running on Windows XP with Service Pack 2 applied does not allow a user-highlighted term to be found in certain kinds of framed sites. In such cases, you will be prompted for the term to look up in the AND as if you had clicked on the tool without highlighting any text first. (The Firefox version is not subject to this limitation, even on XP with SP2).

At present, this tool works only with Firefox (tested on Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and Windows) or Internet Explorer 6 on Windows ME, 2000 and XP (subject the limitation explained above if SP2 has been applied). IE for the Macintosh is not suitable, nor is any Macintosh, Linux or Unix browser other than Firefox. It is hoped to provide a version compatible with Safari on Mac OSX at a later stage.

You will find the tool, with instructions for installing it, here.

The link above will take you to a page that will tell you if your browser is unsuitable; if you have a suitable browser, it will offer you only the version of the tool that works with that browser.

Please note that if you want to try this on Windows using both supported browsers, you will need to go and fetch the appropriate version of the tool twice, using each browser concerned in succession. The Firefox version will not work if you simply copy it to IE6, and vice versa. Similarly, the versions delivered to Windows ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP SP1 users will not work on XP SP2. Any user of this tool who installed it under XP and then subsequently installs Service Pack 2 will need to delete the existing tool, then return to the above page to get an SP2-compatible one.