5.0747 E-Qs: Toolkit; Texts; S/W; Fonts; History (5/120)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 9 Mar 1992 19:12:49 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0747. Monday, 9 Mar 1992.


(1) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 92 23:57:01 EST (26 lines)
From: "David H. Hesla" <ILADHH@EMUVM1>
Subject: HUMANIST'S TOOLKIT

(2) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 13:56 EST (31 lines)
From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Technology
<WILDER@GUVAX>
Subject: Merchant of Venice and the Bible

(3) Date: Mon, 09 Mar 92 14:21:54 (16 lines)
From: ST0115@PA.EALING.AC.UK
Subject: Chinese WP for the Apple Mac

(4) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 9:17:53 GMT (17 lines)
From: "J.C." Baker <J.C.Baker@newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject: IPA fonts for the PC.

(5) Date: 6 March 1992 08:58:36 CST (30 lines)
From: "Wendy Plotkin (312) 413-0331" <U49127@UICVM>
Subject: Computer-Aided Historical Research

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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 92 23:57:01 EST
From: "David H. Hesla" <ILADHH@EMUVM1>
Subject: HUMANIST'S TOOLKIT

When I started graduate study at the Univ. of Chicago in the late 50's I
learned early on that there were some tools I needed to know how to use.
The list included the card catalog, the OED, the DNB, the MANUAL OF STYLE,
specialized reference works, the MLA bibliography, and much else.
Forty years later, what do I absolutely need to know--and *need to teach to my
graduate students*? How to use a computer and a word processing program, of
course. But what about a memory manager (QEMM, e.g.), a multitasking utility
(Desqview, Windows)? Do I need to know the difference between Extended and Ex-
panded memory? I am quite sure that I need to know how to use RLIN and BITNET,
but must I know ftp? Should I be able to manipulate VAX/CMS and PROFS? Do I
need to know how to search ARTFL and the TLG? What posture should I adopt
toward the TEI and the Oxford Text Archive? I recognize the obvious: that it
depends on what you need to know. If one is interested in French, ARTFL is
imperative; if in Classics, the TLG. But is there a core curriculum, an es-
sential body of knowledge, required of all humanists working in the age of
the computer and electronic communication? What do we require in our toolkit?


DAVID H. HESLA
ILA
EMORY UNIVERSITY
ATLANTA GA 30322
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 13:56 EST
From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Technology
<WILDER@GUVAX>
Subject: Merchant of Venice and the Bible


A colleague of mine is looking for the following texts in
electronic format: Merchant of Venice, Geneva Bible, and the Bishop's
Bible.
He hopes to be able to use the two Bibles to locate occurances
in "The Merchant of Venice" where Shakespeare quoted from the bibles
readily available at the time.
He would be most grateful if you could contact me at
the e-mail address supplied below if you know of any of these texts being
available in electronic format, or if you know of any software that he
might use to search the texts for direct quotes.

Thank you very much,

Sincerely,

James A. Wilderotter II
Project Consultant
Center for Text and Technology
Academic Computer Center
Reiss Science Building, Room 238
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057
Tel. (202) 687-6096

BITNET: Wilder@Guvax
Internet: Edu%"Wilder@Guvax.Georgetown.Edu"
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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 92 14:21:54
From: ST0115@PA.EALING.AC.UK
Subject: Chinese WP for the Apple Mac

From: Graham Davies
Polytechnic of West London
London UK
gdavies@uk.ac.ealing.pa

Does anyone know of a Chinese word-processor for the Apple Mac?


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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 9:17:53 GMT
From: "J.C." Baker <J.C.Baker@newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject: IPA fonts for the PC.

Does anyone know of any IPA fonts (screen and printer) for the PC?
I'm aware of "Mac the Linguist II" for the Mac, but I suspect there's
no easy equivalent for the PC.

How do people get round this? Use a different word processor? (The
user in question has MS Word for DOS.) Use a Mac?! Is there any hope
with Windows 3.1 and Word for Windows 2?

All suggestions gratefully received.

Judy Baker
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

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Date: 6 March 1992 08:58:36 CST
From: "Wendy Plotkin (312) 413-0331" <U49127@UICVM>
Subject: Computer-Aided Historical Research

I am preparing a paper for proposed American Historical Association
and Social Science Historical Association panels (as well as a Ph.D.
independent study) on computer-aided textual analysis in history,
especially U.S. history.

I would be interested in receiving references and/or descriptions of
work in progress--as ambitious as a full-fledged published work, or
as simple as graduate students using electronic versions of documents
and/or secondary works in preparing papers.

In addition to the type of analysis -- e.g. content, linguistic -- I
am interested in the source of the electronic text -- obtained from
a third party, or scanned by the analyst.

I have found many references to such analysis in the fields of
philosophy and literature, but much fewer in history.

[I am already familiar with Founding Fathers CD-ROM project and
American Memory...]


Thank you.