3.138 spell-checkers? syllabi? PC-Translator? (102)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Sun, 18 Jun 89 20:19:13 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 138. Sunday, 18 Jun 1989.
(1) DATE: Friday, June 16, 1989, 15:26:02 MST (61 lines)
FROM: John J. Hughes <XB.J24@Stanford.BITNET>
SUBJECT: Spell Checking Transliterated Texts
(2) Date: 19 June 1989 (28 lines)
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: syllabus project
(3) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 89 23:06:02 EDT (15 lines)
From: janus@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Louis E. Janus)
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DATE: Friday, June 16, 1989, 15:26:02 MST
FROM: John J. Hughes <XB.J24@Stanford.BITNET>
SUBJECT: Spell Checking Transliterated Texts
Dear HUMANISTs,
HELP!
I am looking for a spell checker to spell check transliterated
words that contain nonalpha characters that represent accents,
breathing, and other diacritical marks. Here are some examples of
such words: E)STI\N and PRW/TH and *)IHSOU=J. The spell checkers
I have tested (MicroSpell, The Word Plus, Word Proof II) only
count alpha strings as whole words. They treat contiguous strings
that contain nonalpha characters (such as PRW/TH) as two or more
words, because they treat the nonalpha characters (e.g., "/") as
word delimiters. Although JET:SPELL is supposed to accept
nonalpha characters as valid components of words, (1) I cannot
get the program to work properly, and (2) the version I have has
a 160-character line limit. The files I need to check have
225-character lines.
A spell checker that would accept nonalpha characters as valid
components of words would allow users to spell check
transliterated texts that contain diacritical marks. I assume
that such a spell checker would be useful to many HUMANISTs.
Does any HUMANIST know of such a spell checker for MS-DOS
machines? The files I need to check have 225-character lines, and
these lines may not be wrapped.
HELP!
John J. Hughes
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Date: 19 June 1989
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: syllabus project
Morgan Tamplin of Trent University has begun a project on behalf of the
(Canadian) Consortium for Computers in the Humanities to collect and
publish syllabi of courses in humanities computing. It has occurred to
me that we might also collect such syllabi through Humanist and keep
them for reference purposes on the file-server. A detailed record of
what teaching is going on internationally might help us to strengthen
our work locally and could furnish precedents for local initiatives. It
would be useful to know, for example, what role humanities computing is
being given in the curricula of various institutions and what the
instructors consider its content to be. The usual things should be
indicated (including whether the course is offered for credit and at
what level), though no standardized format could be expected or would
even be desirable.
If you think such a collection is called for and have a syllabus on hand,
then please send it to me. If a collection is already available, let us
know. If for some reason an exact copy of the syllabus is not available
for publication, a summary would suffice, but the more detail that can
be provided the better.
Willard McCarty
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Date: Sat, 17 Jun 89 23:06:02 EDT
From: janus@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Louis E. Janus)
[Please send responses to the author of this query, who by circumstances
has been forced to resign from Humanist and so will not see what is sent
here. Thanks. --W.M.]
Has anyone used PC-Translator, a translation aide piece of software from
Linguistics Products, The Woodlands, Texas? A neighbor is interested in
ordering it if it indeed would help with technical material from English into
Spanish. Any advice? Do you know of any other similar products?
Thanks.
Louis Janus
janus@stolaf.edu