3.988 French dictionary; hanzi and kana stacks (95)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Thu, 1 Feb 90 21:59:51 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 988. Thursday, 1 Feb 1990.


(1) Date: THU, 01 Feb 90 11:51:01 EST (30 lines)
From: "Pierre Hamel" <HAMEL@INRS-URB.UQuebec.CA>

(2) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 90 05:06:44 EST (30 lines)
From: David.A.Bantz@mac.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: 3.984 queries, various and interesting (135)

(3) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 90 22:47 EST (12 lines)
From: O MH KATA MHXANHN <MCCARTHY@CUA>
Subject: kana stacks

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Date: THU, 01 Feb 90 11:51:01 EST
From: "Pierre Hamel" <HAMEL@INRS-URB.UQuebec.CA>


Re: French e-dictionary

Permettez-moi de vous suggerer un logiciel qui tourne sur IBM PC et
compatible et dont les performances sont proprement impressionnantes.

Il s'agit de " HUGO PLUS ", (Manseau et al.) un verificateur
orthographique et grammatical compatible avec WordPerfect 5.0 et
WordPerfect 4.2, MicrosoftWord 5, Wordstar 4 et autres. Cout: 84,95
$CAN

Par ailleurs, la meme maison propose un autre logiciel grammatical qui
fonctionne comme un systeme-expert particulierement sophistique et qui
convient bien aux regles tordues de la langue francaise: " Le
Grammairien " (Simard et MacHan) Cout: 694,95 $CAN

Logidisque Inc.
C.P. 10, succ. "D"
Montreal, QUEBEC
H3K 3B9

Telephone: (514) 933-2225
Telecopie: (514) 933-2182

J'essaierai de me negocier un pourcentage sur les ventes ...

Pierre J. Hamel, INRS
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 90 05:06:44 EST
From: David.A.Bantz@mac.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: 3.984 queries, various and interesting (135)

We have a large (75 MB) HyperCard stack for learning hanzi (Chinese
characters) which includes digitised images of brush pen hanzi written by a
calligrapher, "ball point pen" (uniform stroke width) versions, pronunciation
by male and female native speakers (digitized sounds), Pinyin, English
translations, smooth animation of the writing of the hanzi, and links between
simplified and non-simplified versions of the characters. The stack has 2500
hanzi (with variant forms included in the count, about 3500)--the "basic
literacy set" as defined by the PRC. The stack supports search by Pinyin with
disambiguation among homonyms, creation of arbitrary subsets of characters,
and creation of stand-alone subsets to fit on a diskette.

At 75 MB we are distributing this stack on CD-ROM; it also includes extensive
interactive help and additional software from Dartmouth (including additional
software for Chinese). Request a brochure to be sent snail-mail from
Humanities Computing, 101 Bartlett Hall, Hanover, NH 03755-1870

--- J.C.Baker@newcastle.ac.uk wrote:

... Does anyone know anything about stacks for teaching Japanese kanji and
Chinese characters... (do they exist / if so, where / if so, how do I access
them etc)? Many thanks.

Judy Baker,
Language Centre,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 90 22:47 EST
From: O MH KATA MHXANHN <MCCARTHY@CUA>
Subject: kana stacks

Hiragana and katakana stackware is available from
Anonae Software
P.O. Box 7629
Berkeley, CA 94707.
The stacks are well done and helpful for beginners; sounds are
included, and one can catch on to the proper stroke order
rather quickly because of the "self-calligraphing" of charac-
ters.