Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 214.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 06:27:42 +0100
From: John Bradley <john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 15.203 TACT help?
A few days ago Tim Reuter posted a query (below) to
HUMANIST about how to read texts with accented characters
created in Windows into TACT. I have sent him a simple solution
which allows TACT to read and write windows-compatible files
directly which I'd be glad to share with anyone else who is
using TACT these days.
Might I take this opportunity to remark that there is a TACT-L list
now at lists.village.virginia.edu (formally hosted by U of Toronto).
Mind you, I'm no longer sure that the list is terribly useful
(!) -- there have been no posting to it for a long time -- but
it would be a place to post questions of this kind, and I'm sure
that anyone now looking for the TACT-L list to join will not
know where it has gone, since U of Toronto was unable to provide
a mechanism to tell people who try to subscribe to TACT-L at U
of T that the list had moved elsewhere.
To subscribe to tact-l,
send the message: subscribe tact-l
to: majordomo@lists.village.virginia.edu
To post a message to tact-l,
send your post to: tact-l@lists.village.virginia.edu
To unsubscribe from tact-l,
send the message: unsubscribe tact-l
to: majordomo@lists.village.virginia.edu
Regards. .. john bradley
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>
> I've started to use TACT to create a database using multiple European
> languages; but the most comfortable way to create the input involves
creating
> ANSI-character-coded files, and TACT is still in the world of IBMPC
extended
> ASCII. Unfortunately I've lost my TACT manual in my numerous moves in
recent
> years; I know that I can deal with this by manipulating the XLATTABL files,
> but have forgotten which is which and what the syntax is. If anyone has
> solved ANSI-input/ASCII-output and has appropriately modified tables I'd be
> grateful if s/he could send me them as an attachment -- or if there is a
> TACTxpert out there who could give me a quick couple of screenfuls I'd also
> be grateful.
>
> Tim Reuter
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John Bradley
john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk
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