6.0486 Qs: E-Texts; Biblios; Quote; Mac vs. PC (5/94)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 10 Feb 1993 05:31:49 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0486. Wednesday, 10 Feb 1993.


(1) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 14:23 EST (22 lines)
From: Susan Hockey <HOCKEY@ZODIAC.BITNET>
Subject: Possible and impossible queries

(2) Date: 05 Feb 1993 11:04:13 -0800 (PST) (21 lines)
From: RICH@HOOVER.BITNET
Subject: health bibliography

(3) Date: 08 Feb 93 00:09:32 EDT (13 lines)
From: "Serge Trottein" <UROB001@FRORS31.BITNET>
Subject: Biblio on astrological images

(4) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 19:02:30 GMT-3:30 (23 lines)
From: W Schipper <schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: Identifying a quotation

(5) Date: Sun, 07 Feb 93 21:29:24 ITA (15 lines)
From: maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT>
Subject: writing with a word processor (an old debate)

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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 14:23 EST
From: Susan Hockey <HOCKEY@ZODIAC.BITNET>
Subject: Possible and impossible queries

The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities is now making plans
to provide some texts for access over the Internet. Our focus
is on scholarly texts in the humanities and we want to provide
texts with software that really addresses the concerns of humanities
scholarship.

I would like to find out from HUMANISTs what queries (or tasks) they
would like to perform on electronic texts, which they have been
unable to do with existing software tools and text databases. In
order to keep this discussion focussed, anything to do with printing
or screen display should be excluded. Anything else, whether big
or small, is of interest. Please do not be constrained by what you
know of existing tools, although it's often useful to start by
comparison with those.

Susan Hockey
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
Rutgers and Princeton Universities
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Date: 05 Feb 1993 11:04:13 -0800 (PST)
From: RICH@HOOVER.BITNET
Subject: health bibliography

A colleague here at the Hoover would like help for a project relating to
nursing. He would like to know what online resources are monitoring the
Department of health and Human Services in Washington, including whether there
is a source for their publications and an updated bibliography of department
publishing. He would also probably find useful any ftp sites with nursing
materials, any groups disucssing the history and moral/ethical/financial side
of nursing and health matters, and a source of Federal Register issues that
could be accessed electronically.

Many thanks for the help -- I suspect the information has some general
interest, especially with the way health is being made a major issue of the
new administration.

Paul Rich
Hoover Institution, Stanford

rich@hoover.bitnet
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Date: 08 Feb 93 00:09:32 EDT
From: "Serge Trottein" <UROB001@FRORS31.BITNET>
Subject: Biblio on astrological images

I am interested in locating recent studies (last 10 years or so) on
12th-16th-century astrological images, especially those which discuss
representations of the seven planets and their terrestrial influence (i.e. the
Planets and their "Children").
Also, is anyone familiar with a book by Eliana Carrara on the Schifanoia
frescoes? It doesn't yet seem to be in European libraries, but was mentioned
in a recent publication.
Many thanks in advance for your bibliographic suggestions.
-Serge Trottein <urob001@frors31.bitnet>
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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 19:02:30 GMT-3:30
From: W Schipper <schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: Identifying a quotation

Someone has asked me to identify the following lines. It looks, or
sounds, somewhat like late 19th or early 20th century to me. Any
suggestions?


"Silken membranes span his path, fingerprints in dew,
Denizens of twilight lands, humbly beg him through,
Mother Nature's bastard child, shunned by leaf and stream,
An alien in an alien land, seeks solace within dreams."

Bill

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Date:         Sun, 07 Feb 93 21:29:24 ITA
From:         maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT>
Subject:      writing with a word processor (an old debate)
 
I remeber that some 3 years ago, a debate arose about that report saying
that texts written with a Mac were simpler and poorer, from syntactical
point of vue, than those written onto a PC.
Could anyone help me to find the messages related to that debate?
What about database function allowing to retrieve only desidered
messages?
Thank you.
Maurizio
 
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