As new user of SCP you should first try using an existing project. On the main screen use the File/Open menu item and select lincoln.scp . Tap the Open button and you will return to the main screen. On the Concordance Tab , type the word and into the Keys box and select the 'word' radio button. Then press the Kwic button. You should see all instances of the use of and appear with a line number at the start of each example. Now press the Line button. This shows the lines where the word and is used. Replace the word and in the Keys box with the letters th and select the 'prefix' radio button. Now when you press the Kwic button you get all instances of all words that have th as a prefix, so occurrences of the, that etc appear.
Select the Word List tab and press the 'word list' button. You can now see each word in the vocabulary together with its frequency of occurrence. Un-check the 'Frequencies' check box. Press the 'word list' button again. Now the words are displayed without a frequency count. The accompanying drop box allows you to change the layout of the words. Try choosing 'one column' and press the 'word list' button again. Each word of the vocabulary is now displayed on a separate line. You can use the File/Save menu item to write this list to a file, or you can print it using File/Print or use the relevant icon button.
Now select the Statistics tab and press the 'statistics' button. The Word Profile panel shows how words of a given frequency contribute to the whole word count. The Project Statistics shows a few facts about this project, and the Letter Frequencies panel gives counts for each letter used in this project.
Select the menu item View/Project . This shows where the text for the project is located, the alphabet used and other 'scanning rules' that are used to define what SCP recognises as a word. You can define your own projects containing your texts and your scanning rules. Finally, repeat these tasks with the projects 2cities.scp and gawain.scp , they contain extra information called text references which identify the author, page number, and line number.