4.0491 Rs: Concordance Programs; NB to WP Conversion (4/63)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 17 Sep 90 21:31:45 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0491. Monday, 17 Sep 1990.


(1) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 18:05:44 CDT (29 lines)
From: 1ECHAD @ UTSA86.SA.UTEXAS.EDU
Subject: concordance programs

(2) Date: 14 Sep 90 17:49:27 EST (11 lines)
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: 4.0488 Queries: Lithuania e-mail; NB->WP; Pseudo-Philo

(3) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 90 01:53:30 EDT (16 lines)
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: NB to WP

(4) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 90 01:21:19 MDT (7 lines)
From: John Morris <JMORRIS@UALTAVM>
Subject: Nota Bene to Word Perfect

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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 18:05:44 CDT
From: 1ECHAD @ UTSA86.SA.UTEXAS.EDU
Subject: concordance programs

The best concordance program I know--and certainly one of the cheapest--
is called Kwik-magic. It was written by the linguist Ken Whistler and
sells for around $80.00. It is quite fast, because--although you have
the option of writing to a file, etc. if you want--it is designed so that
you can scan lots of text and create a "throw-away concordance" fast on
the screen. It allows you to enter text of your own (with four different
gloss lines if wanted) or to concord text files in ASCII; you can search
for up to twelve keywords at once, do Boolean searches (AND, NOT, OR,
etc.), generate all kinds of statistics, and design the output in lots
of ways (e.g., how many lines of surrounding text to print, whether or
not to print gloss lines, whether to center the word searched for,
etc.). As a linguist, I also find two of its other features very helpful:
it allows you to search from the END of a word back (so, for example, if
you want to find out how many present participles are in the text, you
search for "GNI--"), and it helps you line up morpheme by morpheme
glosses. I've used it for five years and have found it very reliable.
The version I have also comes with a basic word-processor and windows
--quite handy. There may be newer versions of Kwik-magic out now, which
do even more things; or maybe Ken, like the rest of us, has gotten back
to more "standard" academic tasks. But this venture into programming
netted an excellent tool.

I don't know if it's marketed in stores now. Most of the people I know
who use Kwik-magic got it by writing the developer--I'll dig out the
address if anyone is interested.
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Date: 14 Sep 90 17:49:27 EST
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: 4.0488 Queries: Lithuania e-mail; NB->WP; Pseudo-Philo (3/36)

If there is no software to convert NB to WP, it is still a fairly simple
procedure. WP will call up the file from NB, where it will appear as it
does in `expanded mode' in NB, and then it is a simple matter to do a
series of global search/replaces and, esp. for things like bold and
italics and footnotes, macros that will convert. If you have a lot of
files to do, you can build up a set of macros that will do the
essentials quickly.
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Date: Sat, 15 Sep 90 01:53:30 EDT
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: NB to WP

The program I have for conversion of Nota Bene to WordPerfect files, and
vice versa, is Word-for-Word, available from XyWrite. It seems to work
well enough, although I haven't tested it on documents with really
complex formatting. WfW offers translation for about 35 different
formats, including WordStar, PFSWrite, Samna, Multimate, and several
others. It's the only such program recommended by Dragonfly for the job.

I got my copy by calling XyWrite. The telephone number I have is
(617) 275-4439.


Willard McCarty
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Date: Sat, 15 Sep 90 01:21:19 MDT
From: John Morris <JMORRIS@UALTAVM>
Subject: Nota Bene to Word Perfect

Regarding Chuck Bush's query about Nota Bene to Word Perfect conversions:

A package called "Word for Word" does a decent job.