4.0761 Greek: Parsing; Searching; Word Processing; (3/68)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 27 Nov 90 18:45:44 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0761. Tuesday, 27 Nov 1990.
(1) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 07:36:39 -0500 (8 lines)
From: Neel Smith <nsmith@polar.bowdoin.edu>
Subject: 4.0751 Parsing Greek
(2) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 90 11:07:24 PST (38 lines)
From: 6500rms@UCSBUXA.BITNET
Subject: Ibycus computer
(3) Date: 25 Nov 90 16:38:51 (22 lines)
From: David.A.Bantz@mac.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: 4.0746 Greek Word Processing
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 07:36:39 -0500
From: Neel Smith <nsmith@polar.bowdoin.edu>
Subject: 4.0751 Parsing Greek
The Greek versions of the texts in the Perseus project are all fully
morphologically parsed; Homer will be included in the first public
release.
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 90 11:07:24 PST
From: 6500rms@UCSBUXA.BITNET
Subject: Ibycus computer
I am sure that many people will respond to the query about the Ibycus,
but I will put in my two cents worth as follows.
The Ibycus is (or, rather, was) a machine designed by David Packard to
be a complete scholarly computer. It contained a word processor and
facilities for performing searches through texts on CD-ROM from the TLG
(Greek texts) and the Packard Humanities Institute (Latin, Greek, and
misc.). I am not aware that the TLL has yet released a CD of texts, but
presumably the Ibycus could be programmed in its Ibyx programming
language (similar to Pascal) to work with new CD's as they are released.
Currently the Ibycus SC is no longer being made and orders are not being
accepted. I have heard that a new design is in the works but nothing
definite. Perhaps someone else (perhaps a member of the Ibycus maillist)
could enlighten us on this point.
I am not aware of plans to convert Ibycus to being an MS-DOS machine, but
there are several options available for PC and Mac users. For the
Macintosh there is Pandora, available from the Harvard Classics
Department which performs text search and browse operations with the TLG
and PHI CD-ROM's. For the PC there is Lbase, from Silver Mountain
Software, and Searcher, from the UCSB Classics Department. These
programs offer various search and display options. I suggest contacting
the authors directly for full details. As one of the principal authors
of Searcher I will gladly provide information about it to any interested
parties.
Randall Smith
Classics Department
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Tel: 805-893-3556
Email: 6500rms@ucsbuxa.bitnet
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Date: 25 Nov 90 16:38:51
From: David.A.Bantz@mac.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: 4.0746 Greek Word Processing (2/52)
Nearly any Mac program (games excluded) will support mixed Greek and
English text. Your task is to select from a long list of contenders the
fonts whose screen and print versions appeal visually, and the keyboard
layout (particularly for diacritics and breathing marks) you're
comfortable using. If you need Greek-order sorting of text strings, get
a copy of the Greek operating system which contains different versions
of the resources for string comparisons, date formats, and the like; if
you don't need these, the U.S. or other national versions of 6.0.n
system will do just fine.
--- NMILLER@trincc wrote:
The family classicist is looking for a Mac program that handles Greek.
Nominations thankfully received.
NM
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