4.0086 Qs: TeX; Archaeology Software; CD Quality (47)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 21 May 90 17:14:51 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0086. Monday, 21 May 1990.
(1) Date: Mon, 21 May 90 08:24:43 PDT (16 lines)
From: cbf@faulhaber.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: TeX and LATeX
(2) Date: 21 May 90 10:36:47 (17 lines)
From: David.A.Bantz@mac.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Archaeological software
(3) Date: Mon, 21 May 90 16:23:17 BST (14 lines)
From: DEL2%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [4.0074 Queries (84)]
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Date: Mon, 21 May 90 08:24:43 PDT
From: cbf@faulhaber.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: TeX and LATeX
I am reposting this since I don't remember seeing it among recent
messages:
Can anyone give me any information about sources for TeX or LATeX,
particularly for MS-DOS?
Are there different varieties, and, if so, which is the best.
Charles Faulhaber
UC Berkeley
ked@ucbgarn.bitnet
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Date: 21 May 90 10:36:47
From: David.A.Bantz@mac.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Archaeological software
A colleague has promotional literature for "Minark" from Quantitative
Systems. The software is said to be a database manager tailored to the
needs of archaeology, but the promotional literature is vague on its
capabilities, power, or user interface. As we have been using 4th
Dimension to create a database of pottery fragments, including
illustrations, automatic graphing of distributions of measurements from
selected samples, bibliographic references, and a customized user
interface, we wondered whether "Minark" might offer advantages to
development in 4D. Descriptions of development experience with Minark,
completed applications using the software, or pointers to detailed
reviews in the literature would all be appreciated. Target platform is
Macintosh.
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Date: Mon, 21 May 90 16:23:17 BST
From: DEL2%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [4.0074 Queries (84)]
Further to Eric Nye's comment about liibraries not being able to get
funding for CDs. I rang the Cambridge University Library to see if we
had the _British Library General Catalogue_ on CD. I was told that we
did not, because on the demo disc(!) shown to the staff they had
identified so many input errors that they felt the expenditure was not
justified. Does anyone know about the quality of other CD-aids being
advertised?
Douglas de Lacey <DEL2@PHX.CM.AC.UK>