3.671 HumBul; MPA; e-texts; new TACT (245)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Tue, 31 Oct 89 17:50:58 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 671. Tuesday, 31 Oct 1989.


(1) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 89 09:40:13 BST (50 lines)
From: MAY@LEICESTER.AC.UK
Subject: summary of new Humbul input

(2) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 89 08:25:48 CST (10 lines)
From: "Kevin L.Cope" <ENCOPE@LSUVM>
Subject: FINAL CALL -- MPA

(3) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 89 11:25:20 CST (112 lines)
From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@UIUCVME>
Subject: Announcement

(4) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 89 17:02:42 EST (43 lines)
From: John Bradley <BRADLEY@vm.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Subject: TACT 1.1 Available

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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 89 09:40:13 BST
From: MAY@LEICESTER.AC.UK
Subject: summary of new Humbul input


STOP PRESS NEWS

DATE OF ENTRY: 30 October 1989
SUBJECT: British Computer Society. Two-day conference
on aspects of quality in electronic publishing
See Section C1
Conferences

DATE OF ENTRY:29 October 1989
SUBJECT: 5th Internatioal conference on Computers and Philosophy
Stanford University,9-11 August 1990
See Section C2
Overseas Conferences

DATE OF ENTRY: 28 October 1989
SUBJECT: Archaeological Information Exchange
New issues AIE 89-53 to AIE 89-62
See Section H6C
AIE

DATE OF ENTRY: 28 October 1989
SUBJECT: Music Research Digest
New issues volume 4 no 60,61,62,63,64,65,66
See Section H2B
Music Research Digest

DATE OF ENTRY: 27 October 1989
Workshop on Computers in Philosophy Teaching
See Section B3


DATE OF ENTRY: 25 October 1989
Commission on Preservation and Access
Newsletter and Press Release
See Section B1

DATE OF ENTRY: 24 October 1989
Exemple de Programmation SYGMART
See Section B2a
New Publications

DATE OF ENTRY: 10 October 1989
The Spanish Data Bank ONE71
See Section I12
Major Projects
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 89 08:25:48 CST
From: "Kevin L.Cope" <ENCOPE@LSUVM>
Subject: FINAL CALL -- MPA

Wednesday, November 1, is the last day on which proposals for the forth-
coming meeting of the Mississippi Philological Association (MPA) may be
postmarked. Proposals should run to about 100 words; papers should last
fifteen minutes. The convention will take place January 26-27, 1990,
in historic Mississippi State, Mississippi, adjacent to even more
historic Starkville. Come! Come! Come! -- KLC.
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 89 11:25:20 CST
From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@UIUCVME>
Subject: Announcement

Resent due to error. Please delete previous version. Note address, phone
and email address at end of file which were previously chopped off. MH
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On November 6, InteLex Corporation will release electronic editions
of the works of John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume. These
works will be bundled with the most sophisticated search and retrieval
software yet developed for personal computers - Folio Corporation's
VIEWS.
With the VIEWS program, every word of the text database is indexed.
VIEWS supports boolean searches (and, or, not), as well as wildcard,
literal string, nested, and proximity searches. In addition, VIEWS
supports hypertext linking: for example all of Berkeley's references to
Locke are linked by tokens, which allow the user to go immediately from
the Berkeley to the Locke. Finally, the VIEWS indexing process results
in databases roughly 60% the size of the original ASCII text files. The
contents of any window (including the opening window which contains the
entire database) may be output to disk (as an ASCII file) or printer.
Minimum system requirements: IBM PC, PC AT, PS/2 and compatibles,
512K RAM, one hard drive, and one 360K, 720K, or 1.44MB flopy drive.
For MacIntosh systems, the text will be sold as ASCII, without the
Folio VIEWS system.
InteLex is releasing the following texts, based on the editions
indicated in parentheses, but including corrections where errors were
found in the editions:

John Locke:
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
(From The Works of John Locke, Twelfth Edition, London: 1824)
Two Treatises of Government. (Ibid.)

George Berkeley
Of the Principles of Human Knowledge.
(From The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., ed. by Rev. G. N.
Wright, London: 1843)
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. (Ibid.)
An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision. (Ibid.)
Alciphron: or the Minute Philosopher, in Seven Dialogues. (Ibid.,
but corrected against the third edition, London: 1752)

David Hume
A Treatise of Human Nature. (Everyman's Library edition,
London: 1911)
"Appendix to the Treatise of Human Nature." (From The
Philosophical Works of David Hume, Boston &
Edinburgh: 1854 (Reprinted from the 1777 edition)
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. (Ibid.)
Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary. (Essays: Moral,
Political, and Literary, ed. by T. H. Green & T. H. Grose,
London: 1898, vol. 1).
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. (Ibid., vol. 2)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. (Ibid.)
The Natural History of Religion. (Ibid.)
Essays Withdrawn. (Ibid.) (A chapter of the Green & Grose, composed
of eight essays.)
"A Dissertation on the Passions." (Ibid.)
"Of the Immortality of the Soul." (Ibid.)
"On Suicide." (Ibid.)

InteLex will release in mid to late November, Hobbes' Leviathan and
De Cive (ed. by Molesworth, London: 1839), as well as much of the
philosophical work of Mill. InteLex further plans to release
translations of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, and
Nietzsche.
The price and size of the editions are as follows:

Pricing to Individuals: Price: Size:
Folio ASCII ASCII Folio
Hume vol. 1 $ 39.95 $ 22.95 2.1 MB 1.2 MB
(Treatise, Appendix to Treatise,
Two Enquiries)
Hume vol. 2 $ 39.95 $ 22.95 1.6 MB 1.0 MB
(Essays, Dialogue Conc. Natural
Religion, The Natural Hist.
of Religion)
Locke $ 39.95 $ 22.95 2.1 MB 1.2 MB
Berkeley $ 39.95 $ 22.95 1.4 MB 0.9 MB
Hume vols. 1 and 2 $ 69.95 $ 45.90 3.7 MB 2.2 MB
The Complete Database $109.95 $ 90.80 7.2 MB 4.3 MB

Pricing to Institutions:

Hume vol. 1 $ 99.95 $ 57.37
Hume vol. 2 $ 99.95 $ 57.37
Locke $ 99.95 $ 57.37
Berkeley $ 99.95 $ 57.37
Hume vols. 1 and 2 $174.95 $114.74
The Complete Database $274.95 $229.48

The text bundled with the Folio VIEWS program will be sold with a
manual completely describing the Folio VIEWS system (which has online
help), as well as notes on the editions. To the price of any order will
be added $3.95 shipping and handling for domestic addresses; the
international shipping and handling charges will be determined based
on the country to which the product is being shipped, and on whether
air mail is desired.
InteLex also has the King James Version of the Bible (4.6 MB ASCII,
2.9 MB Folio format), which it is offering at $49.95 for the Folio
version, $32.95 for the ASCII. InteLex plans to release a complete edition
of Shakespeare sometime in January, for less than $80.
For more information, contact:

InteLex Corp.
Rt. 2 Box 383
Pittsboro, NC 27312
919-542-4411
CompuServe: 70671,1673
Internet: 70671.1673@compuserve.com
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 89 17:02:42 EST
From: John Bradley <BRADLEY@vm.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Subject: TACT 1.1 Available

I'd like to announce the availability of version 1.1 of TACT.
With 1.1, TACT (text retrieval software created at the University
of Toronto, and given free to all attendees at Toronto's Dynamic
Text Conference last June) can now support much larger texts.
The release also includes a few new features, and the inevitable
collection of bug fixes. In addition, a new, enlarged, version
of the Guide has been prepared.

If you'd like to get a copy of the new version, please contact U
of Toronto's Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH). They
are charging a distribution fee of $30 (CDN) or $25 (US) for a
copy of 1.1 on disk, plus a preprinted, bound, copy of the Guide
(about 135 pages). Both the software and the Guide continue to
be shareware -- you are welcome to distribute copies of either
yourself, as long as you are not doing it for profit.

For a copy of 1.1, contact:

TACT Distribution
Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
Robarts Library, 14th floor,
University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ont. CANADA M5S 1A1
E-mail: CCH@utorepas.bitnet

Although TACT is being distributed by the CCH, development
continues to be done by Lidio Presutti and myself at Toronto's
Computing Services (UTCS). Hence:

For information on 1.1 features, questions, or comments, please
contact:

John Bradley (or) Lidio Presutti,
Computing Services,
4 Bancroft Ave, Rm 201
University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ont. CANADA M5S 1A1
E-mail: bradley@vm.utcs.utoronto.ca
E-mail: lidio@vm.utcs.utoronto.ca