5.0142 Qs: Icons; Langs; Houston; RLIN; E-Accents (6/115)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 13 Jun 91 17:23:56 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0142. Thursday, 13 Jun 1991.


(1) Date: Tue,11 Jun 91 18:10:00 BST (40 lines)
From: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk
Subject: ICONS

(2) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 09:47:56 -0400 (14 lines)
From: nsmith@polar.bowdoin.edu (Neel Smith)
Subject: Czech, Croatian

(3) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 11:29:34 EDT (12 lines)
From: "Edwin S. Segal" <ESSEGA01@ULKYVM>
Subject: Volunteer Opportunity

(4) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 13:21:33 EDT (18 lines)
From: Maurizio Lana <LANA@ITOCISI>
Subject: HUMANISTs in Houston?

(5) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 13:18:43 EDT (14 lines)
From: Maurizio Lana <LANA@ITOCISI>
Subject: address for RLIN

(6) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 13:01 GMT (17 lines)
From: DAVID BARRY <UBJV649@CU.BBK.AC.UK>
Subject: QUERY RE: Showing accents in (ASCII) email

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Date: Tue,11 Jun 91 18:10:00 BST
From: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk
Subject: ICONS

A colleague of mine is investigating the use of ICONS in international
communication and he would like to contact others who would like to
explore this research area. I enclose a copy of his project description
for those interested.

Keith Cameron
The Iconic Communication Project

The dream of being able to understand and communicate in any language
has not yet been satisfied. However, there are existing signs and
symbols (icons) which are understood internationaly. This project
proposes a computer-based iconic communication language and how it could
be developed to a level that might interest telephone companies,
offering a service to specific groups in niche customer bases.

Icons offer a rich potential for communication across natural language
barriers. If confined to the European arena, the many shared
conventions make their design much simpler and their sure interpretation
more certain. The computer provides an ideal device for the
implementation of a flexible iconic communication system.

The need for such a system is made more urgent by the increasingly
international nature of commercial, educational and social
communication. Examples such as booking a hotel room abroad, ordering
machine parts from a foreign subsidary all provide occasions for such a
system to prove its worth.

There is a short journal article and a longer technical report which
cover our progress so far. Please contact me for more detail.

Masoud Yazdani
Department of Computer Science
University of Exeter

Fax 44-392-264067
Email masoud@dcs.exeter.ac.uk
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 09:47:56 -0400
From: nsmith@polar.bowdoin.edu (Neel Smith)
Subject: Czech, Croatian

A colleague in Slavic, new to computers, asks if there is a standard
character set for Czech or Croatian-- specifically, where are the
characters with hacek placed?

If there is a widely used standard, are there Macintosh fonts for these
character sets?

Thanks for any help.

Neel Smith
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 11:29:34 EDT
From: "Edwin S. Segal" <ESSEGA01@ULKYVM>
Subject: Volunteer Opportunity


The Center for Applied Research in African Languages, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to African development, seeks VOLUNTEERS to help
develop electronic materials in orthography, text analysis, database
compilation and linguistic geography. Contact: Stanley Lewis
Cushingham, Director, 162 West Rock Avenue, New Haven, CT 06515-2223;
(203) 389-8650.

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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 13:21:33 EDT
From: Maurizio Lana <LANA@ITOCISI>
Subject: HUMANISTs in Houston?

A friend of mine, who's taking a PhD in Latin Literature, will be in
Houston st arting from October. She would be interested in meeting
fellow HUMANISTs and like - if possible - to improve his knowledge in
humanities computing.

I think it's better if the answers come directly to me rather than to
the list.

Thank you. Maurizio

Maurizio Lana
CISI - University of Turin - Via S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino - Italy
Strada del Lauro 47 - 10132 Torino - Italy
e-mail: LANA at ITOCISI.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 13:18:43 EDT
From: Maurizio Lana <LANA@ITOCISI>
Subject: address for RLIN

Does anyone know how to reach RLIN (The Research Library Group Inc.) at
Stanford? I'd like a snail mail address, as well a FTP address.

(By the way: many Oxford Text Archive texts are <<also on RLIN>>).
Thank you.

Maurizio Lana
CISI - University of Turin - Via S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino - Italy
Strada del Lauro 47 - 10132 Torino - Italy
e-mail: LANA at ITOCISI.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 13:01 GMT
From: DAVID BARRY <UBJV649@CU.BBK.AC.UK>
Subject: QUERY RE: Showing accents in (ASCII) email

Is there a recognised convention for showing accents in email?

(so for example, e acute might be represented as e followed by a forward
quote)

David Barry
Department of Occupational Psychology
Birkbeck College
Malet st
LONDON
WC1E 7HX
England
Email on JANET is:UBJV649@UK.AC.BBK.CU