4.1120 Software: Indexing, Cyrillic, Editions (3/56)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 4 Mar 91 19:32:52 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1120. Monday, 4 Mar 1991.
(1) Date: Sun, 03 Mar 91 16:07 EST (17 lines)
From: "Joel Elliott" <JELIOT@UNC>
Subject: Indexing Software?
(2) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 91 01:07 EST (14 lines)
From: N_EITELJORG@cc.brynmawr.edu
Subject: Re: 4.1115 ...Cyrillic/Windows
(3) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 91 15:33 EST (25 lines)
From: Clifford Flanigan <FLANIGAN@IUBACS>
Subject: RE: 4.1114 Q: Database & Collation SW for Editions
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Date: Sun, 03 Mar 91 16:07 EST
From: "Joel Elliott (jeliot@unc)" <JELIOT@UNC>
Subject: Indexing Software?
Hello,
Has anyone out there come across (or developed) software to assist
in the compilation of book indices? I know that many word processing
programs have indexing capability, but in many cases the indexer has
only galley proofs to work from. I'm thinking of a program that
would allow you to create "cards," then sort/collate them for
export. I suppose one could do this with a dBase compatible
program. Has anyone had experience with this? Ideas on the
construction of such a program welcomed.
Joel Elliott <jeliot@unc.bitnet>
UNC-Chapel Hill
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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 91 01:07 EST
From: N_EITELJORG@cc.brynmawr.edu
Subject: Re: 4.1115 ...Cyrillic/Windows
As someone else noted in a posting of a couple of weeks ago, there is a
new word processor for Windows called World View. It was briefly
discussed in Byte for Feb, p. 72. It *comes with a customization
utility that lets you place any character in a ny font at any location
on the keyboard. The program comes standard with support for the Latin
alphabet. You can add layouts for Greek, Russian, Hebrew, and other
languages.* (Eastern Language Systems, 39 West 300 North, Provo, UT
84601 (801) 377-4558 - from Byte).
Nick Eiteljorg
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Date: Sun, 3 Mar 91 15:33 EST
From: Clifford Flanigan <FLANIGAN@IUBACS>
Subject: RE: 4.1114 Q: Database & Collation SW for Editions
In response to Mark Turner's question about a database program suitable
for his edition of Shelley, I can only say that the only database
program that I know of that will hold the required amount of poetry text
in an individual record is Advanced Revelation. DBase and some of its
clones might allow that much text in a "memo" field, but it would not be
subject to database operations. AREV has the added advantage that every
word in every record can be indexed, so that you have the advantages of
database processing and text management at the same time. And lots more
besides. AREV is not an easy program to use, much less to master,
though it is not as difficult as its critics make it out to be. But it
can do almost anything you want it to do. And no other database program
in the PC environment known to me has variable length records and fields
(and subfields and sub-sub fields) and allows individual records up to
64k in length.
I have no connection with Revelation Technologies, but I am a mostly
satisfied user. I hope this helps.
Clifford Flanigan
Comparative Literature
Indiana University