5.0423 NQ: Quotes, Language W/Ps, Online Info, etc. (11/159)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sun, 3 Nov 1991 19:56:44 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0423. Sunday, 3 Nov 1991.


(1) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 19:43:36 MST (25 lines)
From: <DMIALL@UALTAVM>
Subject: Quotes

(2) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 91 14:17:23 -0500 (13 lines)
From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield)
Subject: Spanish wp & thesaurus

(3) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 14:34:00 -0500 (12 lines)
From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield)
Subject: Foreign lang. grammar checkers

(4) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 18:37 MST (6 lines)
From: JONATHAN KANDELL <KANDELL@ccit.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: 5.0326 Rs: Multi-Lingual W/P; Fonts

(5) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1991 09:20 -0500 (22 lines)
From: "Hey Joe, You got Chewing Gum?" <KEHANDLEY@amherst>
Subject: Knuth, _Bible_Texts_Illuminated_

(6) Date: Fri, 01 Nov 91 09:00 EST (13 lines)
From: "Joel Elliott (jeliot@unc)" <JELIOT@UNC>
Subject: sources for museum science

(7) Date: Fri, 01 Nov 91 09:12 CST (17 lines)
From: UMIH@UOFMCC
Subject: online info

(8) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 91 16:29:18 GMT (9 lines)
From: WHEATLJS@ibm3090.computer-centre.birmingham.ac.uk

(9) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 91 16:05:25 +0100 (14 lines)
From: nubo001@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (H. Borchers)
Subject: Wordperfect List

(10) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 91 16:23:43 EST (14 lines)
From: "Edwin S. Segal" <ESSEGA01@ULKYVM>
Subject: Query

(11) Date: Sun, 03 Nov 91 10:20:14 EST (14 lines)
From: Richard Philip Hayes <CXEV@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: Vietnamese e-mail

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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 19:43:36 MST
From: <DMIALL@UALTAVM>
Subject: Quotes

From: David S. Miall Department of English
University of Alberta

Here are a couple of quotations I'm trying to identify: the first is
for a colleague. In _As For Me and My House_ (p. 159) Sinclair Ross
cites the following:

Once the raven, too, had a croak in his name, and there was a time
when all pens scratched.

Ross himself confirmed it was quoted, but was unable to recall its
source. Anyone out there know??

The other (for me) is a phrase used by Coleridge in aletter (C_Collected
Letters_, ed. Griggs, Vol. II, p. 666): that the affections

walk in silence and in a veil.

Any thoughts on either of these to: dmiall @ ualtavm -- will be much
appreciated!
Regards, David Miall
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 91 14:17:23 -0500
From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield)
Subject: Spanish wp & thesaurus

Can anyone recommend a DOS-based word processor for English
speakers writing in Spanish? I'm looking for one with very good
spell-checking and possibly thesaurus capabilities as well which would
run on a Netware-compatible network.

Regards,
Joel D. Goldfield
Dept. of Foreign Languages
Plymouth State College/Univ. System of NH
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 14:34:00 -0500
From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield)
Subject: Foreign lang. grammar checkers

Does anyone know of grammar checkers for French, German and Spanish? Are
any particularly suitable for English-language users of common word-processors
(e.g., PFS, Word Perfect, Word for Windows)?

Thanks in advance,
Joel D. Goldfield
Dept. of Foreign Languages
Plymouth State College (Univ. System of NH)
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 18:37 MST
From: JONATHAN KANDELL <KANDELL@ccit.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: 5.0326 Rs: Multi-Lingual W/P; Fonts (4/103)

Does anyone have any experience with the Video Toaster? It's an Amiga hooked
up in a way that it functions as a video editing machine.
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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1991 09:20 -0500
From: "Hey Joe, You got Chewing Gum?" <KEHANDLEY@amherst>
Subject: Knuth, _Bible_Texts_Illuminated_

The new issue of _Computing_Reviews_, the review journal of the
Association for Computing Machinery, contains a review of a new
book by Donald E. Knuth (Mr. TeX, and, according to the review,
"one of the half-dozen leading computer scientists in the world")
called _Bible_Texts_Illuminated_. The reviewer is Eric A. Weiss
from Kailua, HI. The book is published by A-R Editions, Madison,
WI, is $29.95 US, has 268 pages, and the ISBN is 0-89579-252-4.

According to the review, Knuth selected 59 verses of the Bible,
translated them into modern English, wrote a justification for
including each verse, and "commissioned 59 calligraphers to do
full-page four-color illuminations of the verses."

The Bible types out here in Humanist land might take a look at
this, but the review makes it clear that this is for laypeople.

Keith Handley, Amherst College Academic Computer Center
kehandley@amherst, kehandley@amherst.edu
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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 91 09:00 EST
From: "Joel Elliott (jeliot@unc)" <JELIOT@UNC>
Subject: sources for museum science

Hello,

I have a friend trying to find sources of info on musuem science
(e-lists, newsgroups, etc.). I seem to remember a query like this
on Humanist, but have not been able to turn up anything. Any ideas?

Joel Elliott
UNC-Chapel Hill
jeliot@unc.bitnet
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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 91 09:12 CST
From: UMIH@UOFMCC
Subject: online info

Readers of this list may want to consult an interesting study on
bibliographic databases in the Humanities available on-line. The
authors also provide info and references to other studies of how
Humanities scholars go about their info accessing work and how
it differs from scientists and social scientists' practices. See
Geraldene Walker & Steven D. Atkinson, "Information Access in the
Humanities: Perils and Pitfalls," LIBRARY HI TECH, issue 33--9:1
(1991), pp. 23-34. The authors conduct a controlled experiment in
using on-line bibliog. databases in the Humanities to see how (well)
they work, whether they overlap one another, and other interesting
questions too. Larry Hurtado, Institute for the Humanities,
108 Isbister Bldg., Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2
Canada.
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 91 16:29:18 GMT
From: WHEATLJS@ibm3090.computer-centre.birmingham.ac.uk

The Canada cheapwordcruncher clone

Can anyone tell me theprice and address for the canada word cruncher
concordance lookalike?
Thanks
John
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Date: Sat, 2 Nov 91 16:05:25 +0100
From: nubo001@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (H. Borchers)
Subject: Wordperfect List


Does anyone know of a discussion list devoted to the exchange of information
about WORDPERFECT? If so, how does one join it?

Hans Borchers
University of Tuebingen
Department of American Studies
Wilhelmstrasse 50 Voice: +7071-29-2910/4833
7400 Tuebingen Fax: +7071-29-4282
Germany Email: nubo001@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
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Date: Sat, 2 Nov 91 16:23:43 EST
From: "Edwin S. Segal" <ESSEGA01@ULKYVM>
Subject: Query


I've heard a rumor that Jack Mapanje, the Malawian poet, is currently in York,
England. Can anyone substantiate this? Does anyone have an address? Does
anyone know of a possible E-mail contact? If you have an answer and would
prefer to respond off the net, please do so: ESSEGA01@ULKYVM.BITNET.

Thanks.

Edwin S. Segal.

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 91 10:20:14 EST
From: Richard Philip Hayes <CXEV@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: Vietnamese e-mail

A Vietnamese Buddhist monk who is a student at McGill is interested
in communicating with other Vietnamese people through e-mail. When
Vietnamese is stripped of its diacritical marks and tonal indicators,
it is difficult to decipher; it would therefore be useful to have a
set of conventions for indicating diacritical marks by for e-mail
transmission. Do any of you know whether such conventions have already
been established? Any information sent to me directly or posted on
this forum will be forwarded to the student in question.

Richard Hayes <cxev@MusicA.McGill.CA>