5.0430 Qs: Diacriticals; E-Texts; Keyboarding (3/53)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 5 Nov 1991 17:21:09 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0430. Tuesday, 5 Nov 1991.


(1) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 91 18:49:33 GMT-0800 (26 lines)
From: abosse@reed.edu
Subject: MS-Word 4.0 (Mac) diacritical marks

(2) Date: Mon, 04 Nov 91 14:06:08 GMT (11 lines)
From: Donald A Spaeth <GKHA13@CMS.GLASGOW.AC.UK>
Subject: Query/American Civil War texts

(3) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 91 15:15+0000 (16 lines)
From: Timothy.Reuter@mgh.BADW-MUENCHEN.DBP.DE
Subject: Keyboarding of texts

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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 91 18:49:33 GMT-0800
From: abosse@reed.edu
Subject: MS-Word 4.0 (Mac) diacritical marks

Has anyone had any experience with diacritics on MS-Word 4.0?

A colleague at Reed has written formulas that can be accessed via the
Glossary in Word which generate overstrikes and so on (esp. latinized
Arabic names)...but there are some problems with this approach in
certain instances, eg. overstrikes over capital letters.

Do anyone of you know of an EASY way to include diacritics in MS-Word
files? (I don't want to have to show the person I'm working for YET
another complicated techno solution...). Another problem to consider
is that these (diacritical marks) have to work on MS-DOS based
machines as well, either via a conversion utility (say, Mac-Link
Plus) or Word's own DOS Save As... command.

We're still exploring the formula route, and I'll post again if we
come up with any answers by ourselves at Reed.

Many thanks in advance,

Arno Bosse
Reed College, Portland, OR 97202
abosse@reed.edu
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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 91 14:06:08 GMT
From: Donald A Spaeth <GKHA13@CMS.GLASGOW.AC.UK>
Subject: Query/American Civil War texts

I have a request from an historian who is looking for machine-readable
textual sources on the American Civil War, for use in teaching.
Can anyone suggest any?

Thanks,
Donald Spaeth
Computers in Teachning Initiative Centre for History
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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 91 15:15+0000
From: Timothy.Reuter@mgh.BADW-MUENCHEN.DBP.DE
Subject: Keyboarding of texts

Does anyone out there have reasonably current information and experience
about having texts keyed in (as opposed to scanned)? I have read postings
in the past about this, but nothing recently. Are there still firms offering
this service, and what sort of rates do they charge and standards do they
work to?

Please reply direct; I'll summarise to the list.

Apologies to those of you on more than one of the lists this is being
sent to for the cross-posting. And thanks in advance for all contributions.

Timothy Reuter, MGH Munich