6.0121 Qs: Indexes; OCRs (2/24)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 9 Jul 1992 18:13:02 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0121. Thursday, 9 Jul 1992.
(1) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 92 12:51 BST (13 lines)
From: "David Zeitlyn, Soc. & Cult. Anthropology, U of Oxford"
Subject: How old are indexes?
(2) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 92 14:36:27 BST (11 lines)
From: J.G.Anderson@vme.glasgow.ac.uk
Subject: Optical character readers
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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 92 12:51 BST
From: "David Zeitlyn, Soc. & Cult. Anthropology, U of Oxford"
Subject: How old are indexes?
Dear Humanists,
can anyone out there give me a rough idea of when indexes became a part
of (scholarly or otherwise) book production. The basic books on the history of
the book that I have looked at dont give the information.
Rough dates for contents pages and footnotes may also be interesting-
I want to put some time perspective on the "multidimensionality"
of hypertext!
Many thanks in advance
David Zeitlyn
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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 92 14:36:27 BST
From: J.G.Anderson@vme.glasgow.ac.uk
Subject: Optical character readers
I would be grateful for information and advice from anyone who has used
good optical character reading software. We need to read in texts in
Cyrillic, Old English and Old Icelandic as well as Modern English.
Jean Anderson
STELLA
University of Glasgow