Reading
This documentation is deprecated/obsolete. Lute v2 has been replaced by Lute v3, a full Python rewrite. Please see the Lute v3 manual which includes notes on installation. If you have Lute v2, you can easily migrate to v3. Thank you!
Lute comes with a Tutorial demo, so you can try it out yourself ... but here's a very brief overview of the key features:
When you first open a text, it will look something like this:
All of these words are blue because they are "unknown" - according to Lute, this is the first time you're seeing these words.
If you click on a word, you can add a definition and some detail:
When you save the term, the reading pane is updated:
If you hover over the word, the information is shown in a pop-up:
When you are done reading a page, you can mark any remaining terms as "well known" using the checkmark buttons at the bottom of the page:
The green checkmark sets any blue items to "well known", the checkmark with the ">" sets all to well-known and moves to the next page.
Here's what the page looks like after the green checkmark is clicked:
Lute has other features like hotkeys to quickly set term statuses (New, Learning, Well-known, Ignore), bulk updates, parent terms, term images, etc. These are documented in the Tutorial, which you can walk through when you first install Lute.