4.0719 Qs: DiscLit; OED; Fonts... (8/136)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 20 Nov 90 21:41:18 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0719. Tuesday, 20 Nov 1990.


(1) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 17:29 EDT (18 lines)
From: Diane Kovacs <LIBRK329@ksuvxa.kent.edu>
Subject: DiscLit Cd-ROM

(2) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 14:59:58 GMT (19 lines)
From: MFZXREP@CMS.Manchester-Computing-Centre.AC.UK
Subject: Wordmill

(3) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 00:57:56 EST (10 lines)
From: "S. Meikle" <sian@utorgpu>
Subject: OED CD-ROM

(4) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 10:16 EST (19 lines)
From: "Dr. Joel Goldfield" <JOEL@DUKEMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Reviewers needed; voice board; French CBT

(5) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 16:01 EST (20 lines)
From: Patrick Drouin <PADROUIN@LAVALVM1.BITNET>
Subject: Q: corpus of French technical texts

(6) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 10:50:32 +0100 (17 lines)
From: "J. Schumacher" <THOMDOC@BUCLLN11.BITNET>
Subject: Fonts

(7) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 09:01 EST (19 lines)
From: "DAVID L. BARR" <DBARR@WSU.BITNET>
Subject: Inquiry on Multimedia Managers

(8) Date: Wed, 07 Nov 90 13:55:03 EST (14 lines)
From: Steven Weisberg <UOG00230@VM.UoGuelph.CA>
Subject: [...] & gavin spittlehouse

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 17:29 EDT
From: Diane Kovacs <LIBRK329@ksuvxa.kent.edu>
Subject: DiscLit Cd-ROM

Has anyone used the DiscLit full text CD-ROM? I'm interested in critical
commentary. It seems like a useful teaching tool but is it?
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Kent State University Libraries
Kent, Ohio 44242
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 14:59:58 GMT
From: MFZXREP@CMS.Manchester-Computing-Centre.AC.UK
Subject: Wordmill

I have been sitting on a working party whose brief was to assess the
capabilities of wordprocessors with a view to perhaps reccomending
a product (products) for use within the Faculty. We looked at several
in the context of multilingual wordprocessing and aside from MLS and
chiwriter were unable to find a product which gave both right - left
and left - right capabilities.

Sometime ago someone posted an item re. WORDMILL which claimed to
have those properties we wished to look at. Therefore I am asking
if anyone familiar with the product could contact either myself
or the chair of the working party to hopefully answer some of our
questions re the product and its capabilities.

Thank You
Guy Percival mfzxrep@uk.ac.mcc.cms
or Gordon Neal MFFGKGN@UK.AC.MCC.CMS

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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 00:57:56 EST
From: "S. Meikle" <sian@utorgpu>
Subject: OED CD-ROM

Is anyone aware of any archives of discussions or information about the
OED on CD-ROM project? (If anyone is familiar with the project, I'd like
to ask a few questions...)

Thanks for any help,

Sian Meikle sian@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca

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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 10:16 EST
From: "Dr. Joel Goldfield" <JOEL@DUKEMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Reviewers needed; voice board; French CBT

Can anyone recommend colleagues who might be able to review one 20-pg.
mss (incl. tables & notes; double-spaced) on machine translation for
Korean, Japanese & English? Also for a 38-pg. mss (incl. tables &
notes, 2x-spaced) on pattern matching, database querying & art history?
Please contact me directly.

Can anyone recommend a voice board that runs well under Windows 3.0?

Does anyone know of a good MS-DOS-, Mac- or mainframe-based testing
program for French and which would be suitable for administering
placement exams?

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Joel D. Goldfield

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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 16:01 EST
From: Patrick Drouin <PADROUIN@LAVALVM1.BITNET>
Subject: Q: corpus of French technical texts

[Forwarded from Langage Naturel by Jean Veronis <VERONIS@VASSAR>]

Bonjour a tous,

Je suis etudiant a l'Universite Laval en linguistique informatique et je
debute un projet de maitrise en terminologie assistee par ordinateur.
Pour mener a bien cette recherche, je vais devoir traiter de facon
automatique un corpus de textes techniques. J'aimerais bien si
quelqu'un pouvait me donner certaines pistes qui me permettraient de
trouver des textes techniques francais.

Patrick Drouin
Departement de langues et linguistique
Universite Laval
Quebec
padrouin@lavalvm1

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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 10:50:32 +0100
From: "J. Schumacher" <THOMDOC@BUCLLN11.BITNET>
Subject: Fonts

People gave us a publicity for SUPERGREEK, HEBREW AND PHONETICS, a
software (fonts) from Linguists' Software (South Hamilton, Mass. 01982).
Price: $119.95.

Did somebody used these fonts? Are they working well both for editing
and also for printing? Do these fonts exist also for IBM machines?

Thanks by advance.
Jean Schumacher
CETEDOC
Univ. cath. LOUVAIN
B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium.

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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 09:01 EST
From: "DAVID L. BARR" <DBARR@WSU.BITNET>
Subject: Inquiry on Multimedia Managers

We recently had a very spiffy presentation on a multimedia authoring
system called PODIUM, out of the University of Deleware. It runs on a
PS2. People here seem pretty gung-ho about it, but I cannot see that
anyone here has done any sort of comparative analysis.

Is anyone on HUMANIST familiar with this system? With other similar
systems? Has there been a comparative study or published review?

PODIUM itself was written up in the Nov., 1989, _Academic Computing_ in
an article by the author of the system.

Thanks in advance for access to the collective wisdom.

David L. Barr, University Honors Program, Wright
State University, Dayton, OH 45435 dbarr@wsu.bitnet or dbarr@desire.wright.edu

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Date: Wed, 07 Nov 90 13:55:03 EST
From: Steven Weisberg <UOG00230@VM.UoGuelph.CA>
Subject: [...] & gavin spittlehouse

[ ... ]

[...] who was it that sent out a question to us by Gavin Spittlehouse?
Mr. Spittlehouse's thesis sounds very close to mine and I would like to
write him a letter. Yet I am unfamiliar with the code to send mail to
the UK. Could anyone supply me with the correct format?

Hint: Mr. Spittlehouse's address is: ags@uk.co.gec-mrc

Thanks.