5.0087 Qs: Baudelaire; Ste Waudru; Steambath; OED; etc. (6/103)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 21 May 91 15:42:25 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0087. Tuesday, 21 May 1991.


(1) Date: 17 MAY 91 08:08:10.24-GMT (31 lines)
From: TONY@FRPERP51
Subject: Baudelaire translations

(2) Date: Mon, 20 May 91 14:20 GMT (15 lines)
From: STFR8011@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE
Subject: information on Ste Waudru

(3) Date: Fri, 17 May 91 16:33:43 MET (19 lines)
From: Ben Salemans <U070011@HNYKUN11>
Subject: Query for character encoding standards

(4) Date: Thu, 16 May 91 15:46:55 -0500 (8 lines)
From: 2l4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Sally Ross)
Subject: The OED online -- ?

(5) Date: 21 May 91 12:04:00 EST (19 lines)
From: "DAVID STUEHLER" <stuehler@apollo.montclair.edu>
Subject: Scholar's Tools Summary

(6) Date: Mon, 20 May 91 20:03:14 EDT (11 lines)
From: ken@vax002.stockton.edu (Kenneth Tompkins)
Subject: "Steambath" video?
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Date: 17 MAY 91 08:08:10.24-GMT
From: TONY@FRPERP51
Subject: Baudelaire translations

I have a colleague working on Baudelaire who needs bibliographical
details concerning the existence of translations of Baudelaire's poetic
works in the following languages:

English (Enid Starkey?)
Spanish
Italian
Dutch
German
Catalan

As I live in northern Catalonia, I should be able to get information on
the last case, but have no knowledge of the others. Can any humanists
help?

Obviously, it would be nice to know if there are machine-readable
versions of the above translations, should they exist.

As this is probably not of general interest, perhaps potential advisors
could contact me at my email address.

Thanks,
Tony Jappy

University of Perpignan
France
TONY@FRPERP51
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Date: Mon, 20 May 91 14:20 GMT
From: STFR8011@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE
Subject: information on Ste Waudru

Dear Humanists,,

I am looking for information on two female saints, Sainte Waudru
(Belgium) and St Margit (HUngary). I should like to read up on the
historical background to each of these saints, specifically the social
conditions of their time. Can any Humanists help?

Dr Angela Ryan
Department of French
University College, Cork, Ireland
Email: STFR8011@vax1.ucc.ie
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Date: Fri, 17 May 91 16:33:43 MET
From: Ben Salemans <U070011@HNYKUN11>
Subject: Query for character encoding standards

Hi there, fellow humanists!

Nowadays a lot of people are concerned with the development of an
international standard for the encoding of characters. I heard there
is 1. an initiative to encode characters on the basis of 16 bits per
byte and 2. an encoding initiative on the basis of 2 bytes of each
8 bits. Furthermore there is the SGML-base of encoding in a uniform
way special characters.

Can somebody tell me how these ways of encoding are connected with
each other en how I can get more information on the matter?

Thanking you in advance, yours truly,

Ben Salemans
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Date: Thu, 16 May 91 15:46:55 -0500
From: 2l4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Sally Ross)
Subject: The OED online -- ?

Does anyone know of a service that offers the Oxford English Dictionary online?

Thanks!

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Date: 21 May 91 12:04:00 EST
From: "DAVID STUEHLER" <stuehler@apollo.montclair.edu>
Subject: Scholar's Tools Summary

In answer to my question about what software scholars find most helpful,
I received two responses. One suggested that since no single product
does everything well, a combination is required. The other was a vote
for Nota Bene and provided much the same information as the single
posting to the list.

Since my idea of the ideal scholar's workstation is a fast 386 running
Windows on a large, high resolution monitor, I am going to attempt to
create my own application. I would appreciate hearing from anyone
who has ideas about what features such an application should include.

David Stuehler
Montclair State
stuehler@apollo.montclair.edu

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Date: Mon, 20 May 91 20:03:14 EDT
From: ken@vax002.stockton.edu (Kenneth Tompkins)
Subject: "Steambath" video?

Can anyone point me to a video-copy of Bruce Jay Friedman's play
_Steambath_ shown on PBS some years ago? I would like to use it in a
class and, while three libraries report having it, none will loan it or
copy it.

Ken Tompkins
Stockton State