4.0247 Qs: Indexing; IPA; Ceramics; French; Etymology (5/112)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 5 Jul 90 15:59:23 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0247. Thursday, 5 Jul 1990.


(1) Date: 03 Jul 90 21:46:43 EST (26 lines)
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: indexing programs: further query

(2) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 90 11:55-0600 (14 lines)
From: Barry W. K. Joe<grfjoe@BrockU.CA>
Subject: Word Processor and IPA

(3) Date: 28 Jun 90 18:23 +0100 (54 lines)
From: Antonio-Paulo Ubieto <HISCONT@CC.UNIZAR.ES>
Subject: two archeological queries

(4) Date: Wed, 04 Jul 90 10:47:39 EDT (10 lines)
From: Jose Igartua <R12270@UQAM>
Subject: Re: 4.0242 ... French

(5) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 90 15:09:12 PDT (8 lines)
From: 6600ca@UCSBUXA.BITNET
Subject: etymologies

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Date: 03 Jul 90 21:46:43 EST
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: indexing programs: further query

From: Jim O'Donnell (Penn, Classics)

I have a dense 450,000 word manuscript in the home stretch and have begun
thinking about indexing it. This will be a large project: there will be
at least three and perhaps four separate indices (index of the works of
the author I'm dealing with, index of other ancient and late antique
passages cited, perhaps separate index of scriptural passages, index of
subjects/names/etc., and perhaps index of modern scholars cited). The
indices locorum alone could have five to ten thousand entries.

The work is being prepared in Nota Bene on IBM, but I have been advised
that NB can be slow and cumbersome in doing its indexing. I also have
WordPerfect 5.1 available, and on small MSS, its indexing works fairly
quickly and transparently, but in WP 5.1, anything involving large files
(this will be broken up into fourteen files of between 150 and 300K
each: further breakdown not very practical) gets *very* slow, at least
on my 8 MHz 286 with 640 RAM.

The query is: is there another way to do these indices that I should be
thinking of? Factors I know to consider are ease of marking items to be
included, speed of index generation, accuracy of index generation: are
there others?
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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 90 11:55-0600
From: Barry W. K. Joe<grfjoe@BrockU.CA>
Subject: Word Processor and IPA

A colleague in Child Studies recently asked me if I knew of a word
processor that would permit him to incorporate the symbols of the
International Phonetic Alphabet in his word processing documents. I am
sure I have seen references to a number of packages that will produce
the IPA symbols, but I cannot remember details.

Does anyone on HUMANIST have a reference for this?

Barry Joe
Brock University
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Date: 28 Jun 90 18:23 +0100
From: Antonio-Paulo Ubieto <HISCONT@CC.UNIZAR.ES>
Subject: two archeological queries

Dear HUMANISTs:

I forward hereby two archeological queries from allready-non-HUMANIST
colleagues here at Zaragoza. Please reply to them at
"arqueolog@cc.unizar.es". Thank you very much. Greetings.
Antonio-Paulo Ubieto, Zaragoza University (Spain).

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SUBJECT: studies in ceramic technology

Dear colleague:

We are working with ceramic tipology, and we are especially interested
in functional approaches and ethnoarchaeological studies about pottery.
We are studing Iberian pottery (VI-I centuries B.C.) and Roman pottery
in the Middle Ebro Valley (Spain).

We are especially interested in patterns of production, firing
and decoration.

Yours faithfully

Elena Maestro and Jesus Tramullas.
Department of Antiquity Sciences
Zaragoza University, Spain
arqueolog@cc.unizar.es

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SUBJECT: microwear stone axes analysis

Dear colleagues:

We are working about microwear analysis, experimental and functional
studies in polished stone axes. This studies are focusing in Spanish
Neolithic, Calcolithic and Bronze Age, so we would be very grateful to
all help you can provide. We are especially interested in North Europe
studies about this subject, and in ethnoarcheological studies about
primitive tribes that use this kind of utils, too.

Yours faithfully

Luis Miguel Alfranca and Jesus Tramullas
Department of Antiquity Sciences
Zaragoza University, Spain
arqueolog@cc.unizar.es

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the forwarded messages end here. Thanks and greetings!
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Date: Wed, 04 Jul 90 10:47:39 EDT
From: Jose Igartua <R12270@UQAM>
Subject: Re: 4.0242 ... French

Les francophones de cette liste pourraient d'abord s'identifier aupres de
M. Eisinger?

Jose Igartua
Departement d'histoire
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 90 15:09:12 PDT
From: 6600ca@UCSBUXA.BITNET
Subject: etymologies

I'm curious if anybody has any insight into the term "empathy".
Does anybody have a Esperanto (sp?) translation?

thanks, charles at ucsb