6.0275 E-Texts: Further Rs (2/48)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:51:27 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0275. Tuesday, 6 Oct 1992.
(1) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 09:48 EDT (24 lines)
From: NEUMAN@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Subject: Electronic Hobbes
(2) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 92 11:11:56 IST (24 lines)
From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM>
Subject: Re: 6.0241 Significant use of E-Texts (1/12)
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 09:48 EDT
From: NEUMAN@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Subject: Electronic Hobbes
Owen Cramer asked about the availability of an electronic version of
works by Hobbes. InteLex has two dozen works by Hobbes in a 6 Mb
file; they are available either in unencoded ASCII format or as linked
with FolioViews retrieval software.
For current pricing information and other details, contact Mark Rooks
at
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I have no professional connection with InteLex, but I am interested in
promoting the production and use of first-rate electronic editions.
Mike Neuman
Georgetown Center for Text and Technology
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Date: Sun, 04 Oct 92 11:11:56 IST
From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM>
Subject: Re: 6.0241 Significant use of E-Texts (1/12)
Significant use of E-text in research: while working on a group of
inscriptions from Delos, I noted that the word _delphakion_, defined
in the lexica as a "sucking-pig", was used there for animals that
obviously were not infants. A small lexical point, but before writing
a note on the fact I decided to check the TLG (which, at the time, I
still had to do by writing to the TLG and asking them to check it for
me, at so-and-so-much per page of printout -- in America it could have
been done in minutes, and now it can be done in minutes here, too).
The information I received from them -- from sources that I would
never have looked at -- showed that the use at Delos was only a stage
in an interesting development of the meaning of the diminutive suffix;
the result, published in the last Journal of Hellenic Studies, was
still only a note, but a much more interesting one, and one that could
not have been written without the TLG.
David M. Schaps
Department of Classical Studies
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan, Israel
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