5.0428 Rs: W/P; LOGO; Quotes; Character Sets (6/87)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sun, 3 Nov 1991 20:06:55 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0428. Sunday, 3 Nov 1991.


(1) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1991 15:57 CST (12 lines)
From: FRAE141@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: Re: 5.0414 Queries (6/115)

(2) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1991 12:36:29 +0200 (EET) (17 lines)
From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL
Subject: Request for LOGO program

(3) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1991 16:12:35 +0200 (10 lines)
From: Oddvar Johan Jensen <Oddvar.J.Jensen@cc.uib.no>
Subject: 5.0321 Qs: Language W/P; al-Tawfiq; Peter Scott? (3/41)

(4) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 91 15:51 EST (8 lines)
From: <JELLEMA@HOPE>
Subject: Source of Lewis quote

(5) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 16:36:49 MET (26 lines)
From: Harry Gaylord <galiard@let.rug.nl>
Subject: character sets

(6) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 22:43:04 EST (14 lines)
From: Jonathan Ocko <JKOHI@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu>
Subject: multilingual wp

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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1991 15:57 CST
From: FRAE141@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: Re: 5.0414 Queries (6/115)


The "answer" to query number 4, the quote in French about writing long
letters because of not having the time to write short ones: that is a
misquote, or adaptation from one of Blaise Pascal's more famous "pense'es"
and the exact citation can easily be looked up.

--Bob Dawson
UTx-Austin
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1991 12:36:29 +0200 (EET)
From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL
Subject: Request for LOGO program

Someone whose I.D. is "pkeith@msus1.edu" recently asked via
Humanist about getting hold of LOGO for the PC. My message
to him was dumped by the mailer: his address looks "normal"
so perhaps I copied the node-name wrong before deleting
the Humanist mail file :-( If he hasn't had offers of help
from someone nearer at hand, and is interested in mine,
he (or anyone who knows how to contact him) should send
me his correct email address (to LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL)
-- I have an old but working and free version I can give him.

Thanks,

Judy Koren, Haifa, Israel
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1991 16:12:35 +0200
From: Oddvar Johan Jensen <Oddvar.J.Jensen@cc.uib.no>
Subject: 5.0321 Qs: Language W/P; al-Tawfiq; Peter Scott? (3/41)

Loddet er falt, vi reiser. Kommer til USA 29. januar og reiser igjen 16.
januar.Finansene er bare delvis i orden. Forsoker aa faa litt studiepenger.
Kan du
underse om det er noe i min gate ved UTEXAS? Jeg har ikke faatt noe fast fisk
i Dallas heller, om du har kontakter? I all hast!
Oddvar
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 91 15:51 EST
From: <JELLEMA@HOPE>
Subject: Source of Lewis quote

Somebody asked the other day about the source of the line
"Love is too young to know what conscience is," in C.S. Lewis's
TILL WE HAVE FACES.
My colleague, Lewis scholar P.J. Schakel, tells me it's from
Shakespeare's sonnet 151.
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 16:36:49 MET
From: Harry Gaylord <galiard@let.rug.nl>
Subject: character sets

Paul Schaffner properly warned of the danger that it may become more
difficult for the user to change coded characters in the future. A closed
character set that does not provide for the needs of everyone is going to
make for an unworkable situation for those not catered for. UNICODE and
10646 as presently formulated do have a space in them for 6,000 user
defined characters. There is also the possibility of using entities for
them in SGML.
On the other hand what we do need is a safe way of coding them so that
we can exchange files with others. At this point if I understand him correctly,
he needs these critters to print them only for the dictionary entry citations
of manuscripts. There will be others who may want to use the corpus of files
he created for linguistic or bibliographical study and they will need to
process the critters for analysis, not only for printing. We need mechanisms
to make this possible.
I disagree with him about the value of anarchy. This morning a 3 inch thick
package of A4 paper arrived for me of the current register of ECMA of officially
registered character sets. That is a small collection compared to the character
sets which individuals are working with. I am in favour of having standardized
character sets which do serve the users.
Harry Gaylord


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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 22:43:04 EST
From: Jonathan Ocko <JKOHI@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu>
Subject: multilingual wp

Re. the conversations on multilingual word processing, people may want
to consult the article and list of vendors in the Oct. 21 issue of
_PC Week_ (p. 198). The articles do not provide that much additional
information other than news that Word Perfect is planning versions in
Russian and Japanese, but the list of vendors provides in one place names,
addresses, telephone numbes, and descriptions of capabilities.
Jonathan Ocko
Dept. of History, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Bitnet: jkohi@ncsuvm
Internet: jkohi@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu