7.0246 Qs: S/W: Timelines,

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 18 Oct 1993 10:11:12 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0246. Monday, 18 Oct 1993.


(1) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 11:30:17 -0500 (27 lines)
From: wall@cc.swarthmore.edu (Matthew Wall)
Subject: Q: Timeline-generating software?

(2) Date: 07 Oct 1993 09:08:25 -0600 (MDT) (11 lines)
From: "ERIC W. NYE" <NYE@corral.uwyo.edu>
Subject: Making Sense of Words?

(3) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 11:59:52 +0100 (MET) (23 lines)
From: Luc Herman <lherman@reks.uia.ac.be>
Subject: Electronic Pynchon

(4) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 14:46+0000 (15 lines)
From: Timothy.Reuter@MGH.BADW-MUENCHEN.D400.DE
Subject: PHI reader software

(5) Date: 11 Oct 1993 17:05:46 -0500 (CDT) (17 lines)
From: MCSWAIN@Acd.Tusk.Edu
Subject: cinema

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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 11:30:17 -0500
From: wall@cc.swarthmore.edu (Matthew Wall)
Subject: Q: Timeline-generating software?


Howdy, historians. I had an interesting query from a group of honors
students who want software that does the following: takes a set of dates
and a text annotation for the date and generates a traditional 2-D timeline
(for printing or on-screen viewing). Any major platform would do, but Unix
or Macintosh greatly preferred. If you email me information, I can
summarize back.

If nothing seems to be out there, I will look at maybe doing a simple
version in Hypercard; if you have a similar interest, let me know so I can
gauge how useful this might be beyond this group of students. It doesn't
seem like it would generally be preferable to just using your average
draw/paint program, but this group seems to want to generate a rather large
set of time-lines for preparing for their honors exams.

Thanks for any leads...

- Matt

Matthew Wall * Humanities Coordinator * Swarthmore College
- wall@cc.swarthmore.edu -


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Date: 07 Oct 1993 09:08:25 -0600 (MDT)
From: "ERIC W. NYE" <NYE@corral.uwyo.edu>
Subject: Making Sense of Words?

Could we have a brief report from anyone who attended the
recently concluded conference at the University of Waterloo
called "Making Sense of Words"? It was the ninth annual
conference of the University's Centre for the New OED and Text
Research, and was held in Oxford. Proleptic thanks,
Eric Nye, Dept. of English, Univ. of Wyoming NYE@UWYO.EDU

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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 11:59:52 +0100 (MET)
From: Luc Herman <lherman@reks.uia.ac.be>
Subject: Electronic Pynchon



----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Dear Elaine Brennan,

Could you please a message on HUMANIST, asking people to let me know
if they possess (and would be willing to share) electronic versions of
any text by Thomas Pynchon. Thanks a million!

Regards,


Dr. Luc Herman
Department of Germanic Philology
University of Antwerp
B-2610 Wilrijk
Belgium

Internet E-mail: lherman@reks.uia.ac.be
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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 14:46+0000
From: Timothy.Reuter@MGH.BADW-MUENCHEN.D400.DE
Subject: PHI reader software

Does anyone know of good, straightforward, reliable software for reading
the PHI CD-ROMS under DOS or (preferably not) Windows? We have PHAROS
and the PHI Workplace, but neither really does all that we want (or, I'm
tempted to say, all that the manuals claim, but I will make allowances
for the way in which my irritation at Grotesquely Unnecessary Interfaces
gets in my way). All we really want to be able to do is regular expression
searches on an author or user-defined group of authors and viewing of the
results with some indication of context and some marking of the finds; but
nothing I have yet tried can fulfil these simple needs.

Timothy Reuter, MGH Munich
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Date: 11 Oct 1993 17:05:46 -0500 (CDT)
From: MCSWAIN@Acd.Tusk.Edu
Subject: cinema

I recently viewed the movie 'THE MUSIC OF CHANCE' which was directed by
Philip Haas and featured James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, Joel Gray, and
Charles Durning (sp?). It concerns a former Boston firman who "by chance"
hooks up with a cardshark named Jim (corr. "fireman"). They then travel
to Pennsylvania to the home of two eccentric and wealthy men played by
Grey and Durning. What happens beyond that seems to be to me a parable
about the fortuitous nature of human existence. However, my tendency
to view things through Augustinian eyes (or Calvin if you like) left me
confused about the message intended by Haas--assuming there was one.
Comments from other HUMANISTS who have seen the movie and have formed a
conclusion about it or have a philosophical perspective on it are invited.
James McSwain
Tuskegee University