First of all, my gratitude to Gunnar for creating this program, and especially for making it freeware. Long live the old 'information wants to be free' ethos! ...
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fantomaster
fantomaster@...
Sep 4, 2001 5:07 am
... I'm not sure I fully agree. While you are right regarding plot and general flow of diction, many authors can profit immensely from LM by using it to store...
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Susan Beth
susanbeth33@...
Sep 4, 2001 4:37 pm
... To clarify, I don't plan to use it for the actual writing -- I realize that that is what word processors are for. I have several thoughts on ways LM might...
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Susan Beth
susanbeth33@...
Sep 4, 2001 4:37 pm
fantomaster <fantomaster@...> wrote: {snipped} I see I should have read ahead, because I've duplicated what had already been said. Sorry! ... But...
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Toucansky@...
Sep 4, 2001 8:14 pm
SusanBeth, I would be VERY interested in an essay on techniques for using LM as a planner for writing fiction. I think LM's potential in this area is ...
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gleebody
gleebody@...
Sep 4, 2001 9:16 pm
Hi Susan Yes, I am writing a novel using LM in almost exactly the manner you describe... building detail of characters, storing researched information,...
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hburman@...
Sep 4, 2001 9:18 pm
Susan Beth, I am writing a novel with a complicated plot structure and find the LM a valuable resource to track multiple threads running through the MSS. With...
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Gunnar Sommestad
gunnar@...
Sep 4, 2001 10:57 pm
Interesting Susan! I will have to think about your suggestions and ideas. This is the first letter with ideas for a long time. ... I will tell you a little...
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DANGEL Stéphane
stephane.dangel@...
Sep 7, 2001 7:09 am
Hello Susan, In addition to LM, U can try Power Structure free demo (www.write-brain.com), limited to 20 plot points but with no other limitations. Could be...
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Gunnar Sommestad
gunnar@...
Sep 13, 2001 10:04 am
Using this search http://search.netscape.com/search.psp? cp=nrpussrpnxr&search=How+do+machines+help+people&rws=11 (fix the line if needed!) I found a very...
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Stephen Prower
StephenProwerBMF@...
Sep 13, 2001 2:01 pm
Gunnar The 'Hume machine' David Hume is the 18th century Scottish philosopher and historian who wrote an Enquiries into human understanding etc. He is one of...
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Claude Veziau
cveziau@...
Sep 14, 2001 9:16 am
Agreed that the 3 relations help understand the brain 'as a computer'; at least 2 other things should be considered in the quest to compile an 'artificial ...
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Stephen Prower
StephenProwerBMF@...
Sep 14, 2001 11:07 pm
Claude Consciousness Je vous reponds en anglais. Mais je sais lire le francais. Je m'excuse que, parce que j'ecris dans ma langue natale, j'ecris plus...
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Stephen Prower
StephenProwerBMF@...
Sep 14, 2001 11:08 pm
Claude Hume machine I could have replied more simply that we seem to be agreed that the main area of technical and human interest is, in Literary Machine...
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Claude Veziau
cveziau@...
Sep 15, 2001 8:41 am
Thank you for your reply Stephen, le français est ma langue maternelle, ici au Québec, mais je peux converser aussi bien en espagnol et en anglais. Mais...
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Mail.ru
addvmig@...
Sep 16, 2001 6:09 am
Dear Claude and Stephen, It is very interesting to follow your discussion about Hume's approach to consciousness. The most interesting thing, however, was to...
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Claude Veziau
cveziau@...
Sep 16, 2001 8:59 am
Hello Vladimir, I agree with you that man should not think of himself as a computer, but rather as an entity that can , at will, use or not use whatever...
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gunnar@...
Sep 16, 2001 9:21 am
Dear friends, Interesting dialogue! I once turned the argument concerning free will the other way round in a cosmological speculation, saying that (biological)...
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Claude Veziau
cveziau@...
Sep 16, 2001 1:11 pm
Dear Stephen, I had surmised we were agreed on the principle of the thing. And yes, I sometimes find controversy an interesting tool when it's helps to create...
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Claude Veziau
cveziau@...
Sep 16, 2001 1:12 pm
Ho Gunnar, it seems to me LM itself is an experiment in itself, for some of us, at least. I'm personally beginning to appreciate it's various facets, even...
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Al Cantley
acantley@...
Sep 17, 2001 2:42 am
Is there a computer tool available based on the Hume Machine concepts that will process text files / databases? I did a search on Google and could not find...
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Toucansky@...
Sep 18, 2001 9:09 am
I find this discussion very interesting. Perhaps I can contribute in some way to it. But before I try I must thank you, Gunnar, for the LM. It appears David...
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Toucansky@...
Sep 18, 2001 6:06 pm
Oops. I meant "contradictions" in my post, not "contractions." Must have been asleep at the spell checker. Kathy http://www.operationdoubles.com...
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Gunnar Sommestad
gunnar@...
Sep 19, 2001 11:13 am
"I have trouble understanding how to use the program, despite the help file and some - too short - pieces by your friends. The trouble with the help file is...
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Heduart@...
Sep 20, 2001 6:47 am
I get an error message at the startup of LitMachine telling me to run BDEADMIN.exe and set local share to =False. This is a hassle because it happens every...
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Heduart@...
Sep 20, 2001 3:24 pm
Thanks for the prompt reply Gunnar, I searched and was unable to find any *.lck files on my computer. I changed the condition to false but it seems to reset...
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Gunnar Sommestad
gunnar@...
Sep 20, 2001 3:28 pm
It is just a (diagnostic) warning message. It can only occur if the program finds *.lck files in the execution directory. If (sysutils.fileexists(LMCurrDir +...
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Gunnar Sommestad
gunnar@...
Sep 20, 2001 4:59 pm
I am working on the following modification: 1. The project window can toggled between list (current) and outline ( = treeview) mode. 2. Outlines/tree-views,...
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Gunnar Sommestad
gunnar@...
Sep 20, 2001 11:02 pm
50% done, I will do the rest during the weekend. (4 and 5 below not implemented). http://www.sommestad.com/dnl/LM2000beta1_115A_exe.zip /G.S. ... outline...
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Sean Povey
seanpovey@...
Sep 22, 2001 10:48 am
Excellent idea.I find myself using the project window more and more as I link LM with other files and programs and these added options will aid my adventures. ...
