various queries (188)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Fri, 7 Apr 89 20:24:49 EDT


Humanist Mailing List, Vol. 2, No. 811. Friday, 7 Apr 1989.


(1) Date: Thu, 06 Apr 89 15:41:49 MST (28 lines)
From: Jude Wang <AOJXW@ASUACAD>
Subject: word-processing in devanagari

(2) Date: Fri, 07 Apr 89 00:20:44 EDT (72 lines)
From: Mathieu Boisvert <BOISVERT@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: SANSKRIT AND PALI (assigning ASCII numbers for)

(3) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 89 09:09 EDT (7 lines)
From: PROF NORM COOMBS <NRCGSH@ritvax>
Subject: electronic bible 3 line

(4) Date: Fri, 07 Apr 89 15:22:53 EDT (24 lines)
From: Richard Giordano <RICH@PUCC>
Subject: Databases on file servers

(5) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 89 13:19:49 EDT (22 lines)
From: <CSEORIORDAN@cs8700.ucg.ie>
Subject: St. Jerome

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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 89 15:41:49 MST
From: Jude Wang <AOJXW@ASUACAD>
Subject: word-processing in devanagari


A colleague of mine in the Religious Studies Department is looking
for a way to do word-processing in Marathi on an IBM PC-type system.
We've heard that both Multilingual Scholar and Scholar's Edition
offer devanagari fonts, but haven't seen either program in action.
Are there any Humanists out there who have experience using either
of these programs for devanagari word-processing? What has your
experience been? Does anyone know of any other software for this
purpose? My colleague and I would greatly appreciate any advice
you can offer -- although we would prefer not to be told to buy
a Macintosh.

In view of the volume of not-always relevant e-mail that we all get
every day, I think Willard and most of the rest of the Humanist
readership would appreciate it if people would reply directly to
me: Jude Wang <aojxw@asuacad.bitnet>. I would be glad to summarize
any information I get; interested parties should also communicate
directly with me. Thank you all.

Jude Wang <aojxw@asuacad.bitnet>
Humanities Computing Facility
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
(602) 965-2679
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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 89 00:20:44 EDT
From: Mathieu Boisvert <BOISVERT@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: SANSKRIT AND PALI (assigning ASCII numbers for)


Here is a scheme assigning ASCII numbers to Sanskrit and Pali
Diacritics. I would welcome any comments or suggestions regarding
this scheme since it (or an alternate version of it) will be used
for entering the whole Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist Canon on
computer. Because of the immensity of the project, this scheme is
likely to become the "standard" ASCII scheme for transliterated
Sanskrit and Pali. It was designed in such a way that all French,
German, Sanskrit and Pali diacritics are available.

Here are the ASCII numbers assigned to Sanskrit and Pali
diacritics:

Capital letters:

A long 175
I long 176
U long 177
T with dot under (retroflex) 181
D with dot under (retro) 182
N with dot under (retro) 163
N with dot on top (velar) 207
N with tilde (palatal) 198
S with dot under (retro) 179
S with slash above (palatal) 199
H with dot under 161
R with dot under (short) 178
Sanskrit and Pali do not have
capital long R

Lower case

a long 164
i long 165
u long 166
t with dot under (retro) 170
d with dot under (retro) 171
n with dot under (retro) 172
n with dot above (velar) 208
n with tilde (palatal) 197
s with dot under (retro) 173
s with slash above (palatal) 200
h with dot under 174
r with dot under (retro) 167
r with dot under and slash above 168
m with dot above (anusvara) 180
this is the long r
l with dot under 169
this letter is different from
the semi-vowel "la"; it is not
found in Sanskrit, but is in
Pali and Prakrit languages

Vowels with circumflex accent:
a with circumflex 202
i with circumflex 204
u with circumflex 206
These are used by certain editors of the Pali Text Society to
indicate that a word as been compounded. They never appear at the
beginning of a word, therefore upper-case is not needed.

If you feel concerned, analyse this scheme and send me your
impressions.

Thank you,

Mathieu Boisvert
<BOISVERT@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 89 09:09 EDT
From: PROF NORM COOMBS <NRCGSH@ritvax>
Subject: electronic bible 3 line

Am blind and looking for electronic Bible for IBM PC. Prefer RSV version but
glad to hear about any version.
nrcgsh@ritvax
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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 89 15:22:53 EDT
From: Richard Giordano <RICH@PUCC>
Subject: Databases on file servers

Does anyone know of any universities that provide access to commercially
available CD-ROM products (such as the Grolier Encyclopedia) through
a file server? There are a lot of CD-ROM products that run on a single
machine--for instance, many libraries provide access to Dissertations
Abstracts on CD-ROM running on a single micro. We are interested
in knowing if anyone provides access to these CD-ROM products through
a file server, thereby allowing multiple access to the single CD.

If you do provide access through a file server, to whom is this
service available? Do you charge for this service?

You can respond to me directly at
RICH@PUCC
or you can call me at 609-452-6009.

Thanks in advance.

Richard Giordano
Computing and Information technology
Princeton University
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Date: Thu, 6 Apr 89 13:19:49 EDT
From: <CSEORIORDAN@cs8700.ucg.ie>
Subject: St. Jerome

I don't now if this is an appropriate query for this list but all help would
be appreciated. Has anyone got any information/references on St Jerome -
5th Century, Father of the Church and translator of the Vulgate Bible.
A listing of any introductory texts would be gratefully received. The area of
particular interest is his letters to women about the virtues of being
celibate - any texts (or online references that I might access) relating to
these women is also of interest.

Does anyone have online copies of his letters or know where I might have access
to same?

Thanks in anticipation.

Mary O'Riordan
CSEORIORDAN@CS8700.UCG.IE (Bitnet/Earn - address)
University College,
Galway,
Ireland.