3.1297 Notes and Queries (206)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 18 Apr 90 16:46:38 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1297. Wednesday, 18 Apr 1990.


(1) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 90 09:41:39 EST (13 lines)
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: software reviewers wanted

(2) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 90 14:48:00 EDT (19 lines)
From: "David Owen, Philosophy, University of Arizona"
<OWEN@rvax.ccit.arizona.
Subject: Electronic Descartes

(3) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 90 17:21 GMT (41 lines)
From: Lou Burnard <LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: can anyone help mr bottoms?

(4) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 90 19:07:51 EDT (11 lines)
From: psc90!jdg@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield)
Subject: "Query regarding a French e-dictionary"

(5) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 90 09:16 MET (21 lines)
From: "Pieter C. Masereeuw" <PIETER@ALF.LET.UVA.NL>
Subject: Query: Duke University Language Toolkit

(6) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 90 16:41:02 EXP (22 lines)
From: Amaury Bentes <COL01001@UFRJ>
Subject: Humanists' help

(7) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 90 04:36:00 EDT (9 lines)
From: PETERR@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK
Subject: RE: 3.1249 software for mss. (18)

(8) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 90 09:17:48 EDT (18 lines)
From: kkm7m@Virginia
Subject: conventions of address

(9) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 90 16:30:39 PDT (32 lines)
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.Edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: digitizing images and text

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 90 09:41:39 EST
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: software reviewers wanted

I hope I can get this message in under the wire. The journal Calico is
looking for software reviewers. Reviews can also include software which
you already have and would like to review. If you are interested in
participating, please contact me: SClaus@Yalevm, Stephen Clausing,
Software Review Editor. By the way, Willard did an excellent job.
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 90 14:48:00 EDT
From: "David Owen, Philosophy, University of Arizona" <OWEN@rvax.ccit.arizona.
Subject: Electronic Descartes

Does anyone know of any exisiting electronic Descartes texts, in
English, French or Latin? Does anyone know of any ongoing projects to
produce such texts? I find it hard to believe that such a project
hasn't been going on in France for some time.

Reply directly to me, if you will, and any information will be added
to the APA list of such projects. This list is available from
Humanist's fileserver, and is constantly being updated.

David Owen
OWEN@ARIZRVAX
OWEN@RVAX.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 90 17:21 GMT
From: Lou Burnard <LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: can anyone help mr bottoms?

From: "Transporter Chief, Douglas J. Bottoms" <DBOTTOMS@EARN.DEPAUW>
Subject: What do twins smell like??

Ladies and Gentlemen of this discussion group:

I have a grave problem. I am finishing a Formal definition paper for my
Expository English II class. It is due tomarrow (Wed.4-18-90 @ 1:00P.M.)
I need to come up with an idea of what a twin (identical, or mirror)
would smell like. I tried to think of every fragrance possible; but, I
know that there exist a fragrance that say "TWIN". Do you know of some
perfume or of someother fragrance that would help the reader of my essay
"smell" the fragrance of a "twin". This task seems extremely difficult
to accomplish, but I know that there is something extremely special that
will get the olfactory nerves on a discriptive high. Please help me
out. I appreciate the help on this or any other suggestions about my
essay that you would give me.

Thank you, in advance,

Douglas J. Bottoms (Yes, I am a Twin)
Transporter Chief of DePauw University
on assignment "Expository Definition."
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 90 19:07:51 EDT
From: psc90!jdg@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield)
Subject: "Query regarding a French e-dictionary"

Has anyone tried _Le Robert 'electronique_ which is published in CD-ROM
form w/software & user manual by Chadwyck-Healey, Ltd? What do you
think of its price of $995 US? And its contents?

Regards,
Joel D. Goldfield
Plymouth State College (NH)
joelg@psc.bitnet
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 90 09:16 MET
From: "Pieter C. Masereeuw" <PIETER@ALF.LET.UVA.NL>
Subject: Query: Duke University Language Toolkit

I am posting this query on behalf of Jan de Jong, a non-HUMANIST
colleague of mine at the University of Amsterdam. Here is his message:
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The Dept. of Classical Philology of the University of Amsterdam is
looking for a classical Greek screen font for the IBM VGA-adapter. They
would be glad to receive the following information: Does the Duke
University Language Toolkit contain a Greek VGA font? What is the
address where it could be ordered? Are there any other packages that
could be used?

Please send your responses to pieter@alf.let.uva.nl

Pieter Masereeuw
Spuistraat 134
1012 VB AMSTERDAM
THE NETHERLANDS

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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 90 16:41:02 EXP
From: Amaury Bentes <COL01001@UFRJ>
Subject: Humanists' help


Hi!

I'm a former member of the HUMANIST List. Although I scarcely sent
messages to you I enjoyed (a lot) getting all that information and /
interesting discussions.
Unfortunately I'm very busy working in my future thesis and that
was the reason I had to quit HUMANIST. But I'm sending this message
because I think you could help me in finding something I do need.
Does any of you know of an Institution named "The ASHOKA FOUNDATION"
(I'm not sure if that's the correct spelling)? If yes please contacst
using the following E_Mail:

COL01001@UFRJ
Amaury Bentes
UFRJ - Rio de Janeiro

B r a z i l
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 90 04:36:00 EDT
From: PETERR@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK
Subject: RE: 3.1249 software for mss. (18)


No reply from Francisco Marcos Marin at marcos@EMDCCI11.BITNET, or
at the email address given in Humanities Computing Yearbook. Does
anyone have a better address? or is he just not answering mail messages?
Peter Robinson.
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 90 09:17:48 EDT
From: kkm7m@Virginia
Subject: conventions of address

A faculty member from our English Dept. asks:

What are the conventions of address (i.e. the use of first names)
in western love poetry? Do they differ between the 15th, 17th and
19th centuries, for example? Do the conventions change country by
country? What are the conventions in British poetry specifically?

Thanks for your consideration.

Karen Kates Marshall
Reference Librarian, Alderman Library
University of Virginia
kkm7m@virginia.bitnet

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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 90 16:30:39 PDT
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.Edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: digitizing images and text

As a welcome back to Humanist (but mainly to see if it's working), I
though I would pass on the following:


I-Base (415-543-6950) is a San Francisco company whose primary business
is getting information into and out of microfilm format; but lately they
have begun to branch out into related fields, i.e., digitizing images on
the basis of microfilms and then taking the next logical step and
coverting the scanned image via OCR techniques into machine-readable
text.

Right now they're preparing an estimate for me on the feasibility and
cost of doing this process for Spanish-language incunabula. Even after
seeing the sample I gave them, they didn't simply throw up their hands
in dispair.

I'll keep Humanist posted as to the results.

Charles Faulhaber
UC Berkeley