3.561 speech-analysis; fonts; bib software (121)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Tue, 10 Oct 89 20:54:04 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 561. Tuesday, 10 Oct 1989.


(1) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 89 17:10:28 EDT (7 lines)
From: Daniel Boyarin <BOYARIN@TAUNIVM>
Subject: Re: 3.545 speech-analysis? (31)

(2) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 89 17:17 EDT (15 lines)
From: Michel LENOBLE <LENOBLEM@CC.UMONTREAL.CA>
Subject: RE: 3.545 speech-analysis? (31)

(3) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 89 09:56:16 EDT (35 lines)
From: David.A.Bantz@mac.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: 3.555 printing from Duke Greek? (28)

(4) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 89 16:19:46 PDT (45 lines)
From: "[DCGQAL]A0234" <XB.DAS@STANFORD.BITNET>
Subject: [DCGQAL]A0234!Bibliographic Database Program

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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 89 17:10:28 EDT
From: Daniel Boyarin <BOYARIN@TAUNIVM>
Subject: Re: 3.545 speech-analysis? (31)

Dr. Malkah Yaeger at Ben Gurion University Linguistics does that kind
of work and she will know about any software. Her email address is
kfaf100 at bgunos.
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 89 17:17 EDT
From: Michel LENOBLE <LENOBLEM@CC.UMONTREAL.CA>
Subject: RE: 3.545 speech-analysis? (31)

Montreal, le 10 octobre 1989.

I would advise you to contact Professor Laurent Santerre working
at the Linguistics Department, Case Postale 6128, Succ 'A', MONTREAL
(Quebec) - CANADA - H3C 3J7. (Universite de MoOntreal
ntreal). I think he
might be of some help to you. I don't thing he has any E-mail address.
Just try - good luck

Michel Lenoble
LenobleM@cc.umontreal.ca
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 89 09:56:16 EDT
From: David.A.Bantz@mac.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: 3.555 printing from Duke Greek? (28)

Please don't be annoyed at my responding to a slightly different question than
intended, but D.Mealand's request expresses an important need not always
recognized as such: independence of application software from support for
various languages. If support for a wide range of languages is anticipated at
the system level by providing for system support of arbitrary fonts and dead
keys, alternative schemes for keyboard input, string comparison, and the like,
applications may automatically gain multi-language capability without
explicitly supporting them. Users gain multi-language capability for
arbitrary applicaitons by obtaining suitable fonts. Unfortunately for
humanists, such system support is totally lacking in most environments,
notably MS-DOS. Limited multi-language support has always been part of
Apple's system software for Macintosh, and is increasingly well-supported
(through what Apple calls the Script Manager portion of the operating system
versions since 1987). Postscript printers, likewise may provide support for
multiple languages by separating the font from the print engine and
communications portion of the printer. Despite the use of Postscript in the
NeXT machine, however, NeXT has so far failed to provide even the limited
support for multiple languages the Macintosh supported six years ago: system
software currently only supports a very limited extended ASCII set of
characters; there is no way to enter a diacritic for example.

--- D.Mealand@EDINBURGH.AC.UK wrote:
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 555. Monday, 9 Oct 1989.

...What I need is [support for non-Roman language texts] which is programme
independent so that I can run any programme I like and display text in Greek
using the Duke font AND then print out an equivalent display on hardcopy. In
other words I wish to be able to get out of an epson lq1500 or a laserprinter
a font which has all the normal ascii... [and] Greek ...

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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 89 16:19:46 PDT
From: "[DCGQAL]A0234" <XB.DAS@STANFORD.BITNET>
Subject: [DCGQAL]A0234!Bibliographic Database Progra

In reply to the questioner who wanted to know about software that deals with
bibliographic information as a database to be incorporated into word processed
files, I have recently been addicted to a program on the Macintosh called End
Note [Niles and Associates, Inc., 2000 Hearst St., Berkeley, California 94709,
USA]. At something around $100, this program is very useful. It provides a
Desk Accessory version and a fuller standalone program for creating and
managing databases of bibliographic citations and references. These can be
copied and pasted into word-processed documents as needed. After the document
is finished, EndNote will format the document (given that it has been prepared
in any of a number of standard w-p programs) in a variety of styles, specific
to the requirements of, say, the MLA, Chicago Manual of Style, APA, JACS,
Nature, Science, etc. It also supports various import and export capabilities;
while a companion program (EndLink) supports the creation of local
bibliographic databases from online searches of larger sets (DIALOG, OCLC,
MEDLINE, etc.)

The program has functioned perfectly in my application, and it may be of
interest to other HUMANISTS.

Cordially,


Chet Grycz
Scholarship and Technology Study Project
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