... My site can help with this. http://www.gospel-thomas.net/splitv.htm ... where the Greek words are colored-coded. Unfortunately, I see that I haven't (yet)...
9513
Richard Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Aug 25, 2010 5:30 pm
FWIW- Emmel identifies EIS as a "diecetic particle", meaning that its meaning depends on a contextual reference. It is therefore more akin to Gr IDOU than to...
9514
Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Aug 25, 2010 5:56 pm
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3574807/TLG__PHI__Cd-rom_E_with_Antiquarium_2.0 ... I've now worked on it. I was able to download the Torrent file, and ...
9515
Rick Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Aug 25, 2010 10:16 pm
... I suppose I should be grateful for having even this, but I have to say the Marcion application is the hardest most convoluted piece of software I have come...
9516
Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Aug 26, 2010 5:39 am
I've come across a voluminous set of links to Coptic resources and texts, in an ETC posting Monday by one Christian Askeland: ...
9517
Richard Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Aug 26, 2010 11:45 am
Hmmm. It seems that perhaps my criticism (below) of the Marcion application was a bit overstated. ... I decided last night that I was going to "conquer" this...
9518
Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Aug 26, 2010 6:28 pm
I've had a brief email exchange with Christian Askeland which I'm sure he wouldn't mind my sharing, since there's nothing ... Thanks, Mike! My site focuses on...
9519
Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Aug 26, 2010 7:17 pm
... Me too. As I understand it, one of the upsides of using a Unicode font is that one doesn't have to switch from one font to another when including say,...
9520
Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Aug 26, 2010 7:50 pm
Good news! We now have Milan Konvicka (alias Vagrant/Vagrantos) on the premisses. Welcome Milan! I hope you will be able to find in the archives the stuff...
9521
vagrantthewonderful
vagrantthewo...
Aug 26, 2010 7:52 pm
I see that here is discussed Marcion software sometimes. Whoever has problems with it or have any idea on account of improvements or new features, tell me...
9522
Rick Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Aug 27, 2010 12:26 am
Hi Mike- One of your remarks about Unicode is exactly the same thing I had always thought too. ... [||] As it turns out, however, this is an amazingly simple...
9523
Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Aug 27, 2010 7:12 am
Milan - Two questions: (1) Please look at http://www.gospel-thomas.net/Clip1.jpg This is a screen-print of my attempt to search the Nag Hammadi Library from...
9524
vagrantthewonderful
vagrantthewo...
Aug 27, 2010 10:03 am
1) this is described here <1%29%20this%20is%20described%20here:%20http://sourceforge.net/apps/medi\ ...
9525
vagrantthewonderful
vagrantthewo...
Aug 27, 2010 10:14 am
hi, there is only one posibility how search words directly from texts, select text by mouse, open popup menu and choose crum or lsj (depending on that word is...
9526
Richard Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Aug 27, 2010 6:17 pm
... replace the Nag ... corrected version of ... Actually, I started something similar last night (more to find out what was the problem than to offer...
9527
Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Aug 27, 2010 6:30 pm
... Milan has a corrected file, Rick. What I was talking about was how to download and install it in place of the corrupted file. Mike...
9528
Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Aug 27, 2010 7:32 pm
Thanks for your help with the search function, Milan. I see now that the key step is to make the NH library searchable in the first place by building an index...
9529
vagrantthewonderful
vagrantthewo...
Aug 28, 2010 10:21 am
iam not sure if you have still old corrupted file, or if you found any new errors in text. anyway, here ...
9530
vagrantthewonderful
vagrantthewo...
Aug 28, 2010 10:54 am
you are absolytely correct, text based on numbering lines and pages of codices cannot be searched directly. my system is not perfect, because among search...
9531
Judy Redman
judyr54
Aug 28, 2010 11:58 am
Hi Milan, Welcome. I suspect you won't find too many programmers on this particular list, although I think that learning spoken languages and programming both ...
9532
vagrantthewonderful
vagrantthewo...
Aug 28, 2010 2:11 pm
and also, if it is not very annoying for anyone, there are two forums named help <http://sourceforge.net/projects/marcion/forums/forum/1008436> and open...
9533
Rick Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Aug 28, 2010 6:45 pm
I have spent the last couple of days experimenting with a Coptic keyboard utility developed by D. J. Mastronarde at the University of California, Berkley,...
9534
Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Aug 29, 2010 7:21 am
... You forgot to provide a hyperlink, Rick: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/coptic.html I'm of course quite interested in this, but looking around I'm...
9535
Rick Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Aug 29, 2010 11:44 am
Hi Mike- ... [||] I understand the confusion and I doubt you are the only one in that state. Maybe I can clarify things (although I confess I don't have...
9536
Rick Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Aug 29, 2010 3:24 pm
In a previous note I had mentioned some difficulties getting MS Word to "play nice" with the CopticU keyboard utility. Specifically, I pointed out that the...
9537
Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Aug 31, 2010 6:38 am
Hi Rick, I've been learning and experimenting the last several days (this is what I call 'actual work', which I normally try to avoid :-) I've downloaded and...
9538
Richard Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Aug 31, 2010 4:41 pm
This entire "Unicode Standard" thing is so convoluted it is almost beyond comprehension. That seems especially to be the case with Coptic. For some reason,...
9539
Tim Ricchuiti
tim.ricchuiti
Aug 31, 2010 8:08 pm
The problem with Coptic's representation in Unicode is that it used to be represented along with Greek. So at one point (somewhere around Unicode 3.0) there...
9540
Rick Hubbard
rickhubbardus
Aug 31, 2010 10:33 pm
... [||] Actually, the ability to switch keyboards with key commands is native to Windows (XP Pro at least). I go from English to Coptic with a Shift+2 and...
9541
Michael Grondin
mwgrondin
Aug 31, 2010 11:33 pm
... I've tested this, Rick, and I can't duplicate your result. My Excel- sorts yielded correct results. I agree that sortability of the Coptic letters is a big...
