Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> (02/06/90)
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1002. Monday, 5 Feb 1990. (1) Date: Mon, 05 Feb 90 10:49 CST (17 lines) From: A10PRR1@NIU Subject: SGML (2) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 90 10:40:22 EST (30 lines) From: J.C.Baker@newcastle.ac.uk Subject: Re: 3.984 queries, various and interesting (135) (3) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 90 12:01:00 EST (11 lines) From: DENNIS CINTRA LEITE <FGVSP@BRFAPESP> Subject: RE: 3.991 antisocial MLS? Intelex? pingpong virus? (62) (4) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 90 20:32:22 EST (17 lines) From: Daniel Boyarin <BOYARIN@TAUNIVM> Subject: Re: 3.996 queries, fascinating (112) (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 90 10:49 CST From: A10PRR1@NIU Subject: SGML In response to John J Hughes' request for "a definitive, authoritative, published definition of SGML": I don't know if this fits all the conditions, but you might try James H. Coombs, et al., "Markup Systems and the Future of Scholarly Text Processing," COMM. OF THE ACM, vol. 30, no. 11 (Nov. 1987), 933-47 and Thomas W. Smith, "Desktop Publishing in the University," ACADEMIC COMPUTING, May 1989, pp. 26ff. Phil Rider Northern Illinois University (2) --------------------------------------------------------------44---- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 90 10:40:22 EST From: J.C.Baker@newcastle.ac.uk Subject: Re: 3.984 queries, various and interesting (135) With reference to: > We have a large (75 MB) HyperCard stack for learning hanzi (Chinese > characters) which includes digitised images of brush pen hanzi written by a > calligrapher, "ball point pen" (uniform stroke width) versions, pronunciation > by male and female native speakers (digitized sounds), Pinyin, English > translations, smooth animation of the writing of the hanzi, and links between > simplified and non-simplified versions of the characters. The stack has 2500 > hanzi (with variant forms included in the count, about 3500)--the "basic > literacy set" as defined by the PRC. The stack supports search by Pinyin with > disambiguation among homonyms, creation of arbitrary subsets of characters, > and creation of stand-alone subsets to fit on a diskette. Sounds wonderful. > At 75 MB we are distributing this stack on CD-ROM; it also includes extensive > interactive help and additional software from Dartmouth (including additional > software for Chinese). Request a brochure to be sent snail-mail from > Humanities Computing, 101 Bartlett Hall, Hanover, NH 03755-1870 Will do. Many thanks for the lead. ______________________________________________________________________ Judy Baker (091) 222 6000 University of Newcastle upon Tyne J.C.Baker @ uk.ac.newcastle ______________________________________________________________________ (3) --------------------------------------------------------------22---- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 90 12:01:00 EST From: DENNIS CINTRA LEITE <FGVSP@BRFAPESP> Subject: RE: 3.991 antisocial MLS? Intelex? pingpong virus? (62) Regarding the pong-pong virus, someone at the University of Sao Paulo seems to have put together a program called "leucocitus" which kills of the stupid thing. I could mail a copy to the list moderator for distribution. Alternate solution would be to use the sys command to recopy your MSDOS system files to your hard disk since the virus lives inside one of the three system files. Just put an uninfected dos diskette (write protected) in your diskette drive and type "sys c:" and the thing is done. (4) --------------------------------------------------------------15---- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 90 20:32:22 EST From: Daniel Boyarin <BOYARIN@TAUNIVM> Subject: Re: 3.996 queries, fascinating (112) for willard's friend; it sounds to me like notabene might handle the job. i hestiate to say so, because i know that willard knows nb inside out and wonder why he didn't think it suitable. i'll be interest to hear his comments. [Yes, I think that NB Ibid could do the job, if the jobs Daniel and I have in mind are the same one, namely bibliographic management for the Pacific Rim project. There's no requirement for non-alphabetic characters. I did not mention NB in the query because (1) I didn't want to limit the range of recommendations, and (2) the person in question may well not want to switch wordprocessors. I think she's using WordPerfect. NB Ibid's strength -- seamless integration into the NB environment -- is also its fatal weakness for those unwilling to switch wordprocessors, however much some of us think they should. --W.M.]