4.0592 Word For Word (5/78)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 16 Oct 90 18:53:24 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0592. Tuesday, 16 Oct 1990.


(1) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 90 20:28 EST (18 lines)
From: O MH KATA MHXANHN <MCCARTHY@CUA>
Subject: Word for Word, and other translation utilities

(2) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 90 08:14:43 PDT (17 lines)
From: 6500rms@UCSBUXA.BITNET
Subject: Re: 4.0583 Queries

(3) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 13:52:00 EST (24 lines)
From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu
Subject: Willard McCarty query, again

(4) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 14:20:00 EST (9 lines)
From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu
Subject: Word to Word

(5) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 24:45:00 EST (10 lines)
From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu
Subject: Word for Word

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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 90 20:28 EST
From: O MH KATA MHXANHN <MCCARTHY@CUA>
Subject: Word for Word, and other translation utilities

Although I know that this will not help Willard McCarty greatly, his
mention of Word for Word put me in mind of my poor opinion of its
Macintosh indigitation. Oh, it translates well enough, I suppose,
when it is not causing a crash, which is what it does two out of
three times (on my machine, at any rate). Much better, and also
much less explosive, are the MacLink translation utilities.

MacLink has XYWrite translators, but I don't know if it will
bring Nota Bene files to a Macintosh, or vice versa. Does any-
one know if such a translation, preserving foreign language
fonts, is possible using this or other available translators?

W. McCarthy
Wash., D.C.
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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 90 08:14:43 PDT
From: 6500rms@UCSBUXA.BITNET
Subject: Re: 4.0583 Queries (10/170)

We have a copy of Word for Word but have been using Software Bridge to
convert to and from Nota Bene. We have not done any sort of formal
testing, but it seems to handle conversions between NB and WP or Word
quite well. The only problems have occured converting Kurzweil scanned
texts to Word for MAcintosh; sometimes Word for Word works better there.

Randall Smith
Classics Department
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Tel: 805-893-3556
Email: 6500rms@ucsbuxa.bitnet

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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 13:52:00 EST
From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu
Subject: Willard McCarty query, again


I suggested an exchange of files a little too glibly (and stupidly,
given recent discussion). It suddently dawned on me that not everyone
is operating in the same environment. However, my offer still stands
provided that Willard McCarty, or anyone else for that matter, is using
a PC for E-Mail within a DOS environment. I believe that at that point,
extended ASCII characters should be transported from on PC to another
without any problems. If your PC is emulating a mainframe node, I don't
think that it will work. What I mean by a DOS environment: my E-Mail
is the local 3Com LAN's which is connected through technical wizardry to
the mainframe and on to the outside world such as this forum. I suspect
that anyone using 3Com, Novell or whatever local LAN they have, and do
not have to go through the steps of connecting to a mainframe (with its
own passwords and account names), might be able to do the same thing.
Anyone wishing to try this out should contact me directly. I can do the
same thing in the Mac environment, and am willing to experiment with
that system too.

MKessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU

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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 14:20:00 EST
From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu
Subject: Word to Word


Cancel any idea of experimentation. I just tried it, and it does not
work. Not a great idea.

MKessler@hum.sfsu.edu
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 24:45:00 EST
From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu
Subject: Word for Word

In reply to Willard McCarty's query, it might be possible to test
different conversion programs if a FEW pages of the original files were
forwarded to individuals with other conversion programs. I am willing
to test R-Doc\X, and send Willard McCarty the results.

MKessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU