new music list; new book (88)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Wed, 5 Apr 89 20:07:34 EDT


Humanist Mailing List, Vol. 2, No. 804. Wednesday, 5 Apr 1989.


(1) Date: Tue, 04 Apr 89 22:08:40 EST (18 lines)
From: "A. Ralph Papakhian" <PAPAKHI@IUBVM>
Subject: Mail distribution list for the Music Library Association

(2) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 08:04:30 EDT (50 lines)
From: AEB_BEVAN@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK
Subject: book on language automation and keyboard standards

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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 89 22:08:40 EST
From: "A. Ralph Papakhian" <PAPAKHI@IUBVM>
Subject: Mail distribution list for the Music Library Association

MLA-L, a mail distribution for the Music Library Association and music
library related topics, has been established at IUBVM (Indiana University,
Bloomington). Initially, MLA-L will serve as a mail distribution service
only (no archiving or file serving will be provided). The focus for MLA-L
will be the activities of the Association and any other topics that would
be of interest to the music library community.
MLA-L is operated as a LISTSERV list. Interested parties can subscribe
by sending the appropiate command (SUBSCRIBE MLA-L <full name>) to
LISTSERV@IUBVM, or by sending me (PAPAKHI@IUBVM) a message requesting
subscription. Any other questions about MLA-L can also be directed to me.
A. Ralph Papakhian
Exec. Sec., Music Library Association
Indiana University Music Library
Bloomington, IN 47405 812-855-2970
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 08:04:30 EDT
From: AEB_BEVAN@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK
Subject: book on language automation and keyboard standards

Note: I haven't seen a copy of this book yet, but the authors previous work has
been most interesting. So I am passing on the publication information for
HUMANIST interest.

John Clews. Language Automation worldwide: the development of character set
standards. Harrogate, England. Sesame Computer Projects. 1988
British Library Research and Development report No. 5962.
ISBN 1 870095 01 4
165 pages. 19.95 pounds sterling postfree in the UK.
5.00 sterling handling for orders outside the UK. 5.00 sterling additional if
remittance not in sterling. Surcharge for orders without prepayment.

Sesame Computer Projects, 8, Avenue road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire,HG2 7PG
United Kingdom.

summary of publishers information:

No text processing can take place unless a character set is defined.
But despite being central to the use of computers for any language
this area is largely ignored in the literature of computers or languages.

" language automation Worldwide" gives an overview of the development
of scripts for specific languages. It describes international,
national and de facto character set standards for a wide variety
of languages and scripts used in many different applications around
the world.

Four chapters deal with existing Roman character sets and the attempts to
standardise them through the ISO and other bodies. There are also chapters on
the following topics:

Other European scripts (Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Georgian)

Middle eastern scripts ( Hebrew, Arabic)

South Asian scripts (Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurumukhi, Bengali, Oriya,
tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinnhalese, Tibetan ).

Southeast Asian Scripts (Burmese, Khmer, Thai, Lao)

East Asian Scripts ( Chinese, Japanese, Korean )

author is member of BSI (British Standards Institute) technical committee on
character set standards, and of an ISO working group on a multiple octet
character set standard.