dm-l November 2006

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by Pierluigi Carnesecchi 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

un saluto a tutti non parlo inglese ho il sito http://digilander.libero.it/gasparo/indice.htm cerco notizie sui Carnesecchi fiorentini grazie cordialmente pierluigi c.

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numbering lines
by Murray McGillivray 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Folks, I have a number of text files of poetry that I'd like to add line numbers to for concordancing, starting the numbering at 1 and continuing to the last text line, with the line numbers ending up as part of the resulting text file, each number on the relevant line before the text of that line of verse begins. I've done this before a few times a while ago, but danged if I can remember what I used. I know I didn't write anything to do it, though I assume it's pretty easy to do so. I think it was in a text editor or word processor, but looking at vi and emacs it looks like I can only get the line numbers to display with the file, not to be added to the file, and that's true of some Windows ones as well and of Word, unless there are tricks. The UNIX/Linux "nl" utility does basically what I want (if I pipe the output to a file, I get my text file back but with a line number and a tab added to the beginning of each line), and I can deal with the output but I remember (possibly from one of those technicolor dreams--you'll let me know!) a more interactive, less command-liney, way of doing this that would make this stage easier. Thanks for any help. Murray McGillivray

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The Heroic Age
by Larry Swain 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

The editors and board of The Heroic Age would like to announce the release of our latest issue, Issue 9: Oswald, King and Saint: His Britain and Beyond. The issue may be found by pointing your browser to www.heroicage.org and clicking on Current Issue. Please also take note of our Call for Papers for future issues. Larry J. Swain Editor in Chief The Heroic Age www.heroicage.org -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Access or Excel
by Abdullah Alger 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Dear all, I would like to ask for advice whether I should use MS Access or Excel for data crunching. I have been using Excel for some work I am doing on Old English poetry where I am looking at specific features of a fixed set of poems. However, I have decided also to look at other aspects of the same set of poems. To put it in a nutshell, I have three sets of data I want to compare concerning the same poems in order to see where the trends are. I know how to use Excel fairly well - at least to get statistical information - but I have been getting into trouble when trying to find trends across several sets of data. I thought about pivot tables, but I am not sure if that's the way to go, when I think that I may be able to do things easier in Access - even though I don't know anything about how to use it. Which application would you suggest I use? Best, Abdullah Alger

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Content Management Systems again
by Daniel O'Donnell 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Hi all, I thought I'd report on my experiments with Content Management Systems for my professional web space. I tried out Textpattern http://www.textpattern.com/ and Drupal http://www.drupal.org/. Both are open source, mysql- and php-content management systems. Drupal is by far the more widely used, more flexible, and customisable; textpattern is far more simple, somewhat limited in its organisation (it is really a blogging system that is transforming to a more general CMS). Both work under the major server software, and so are compatible with anything your university or IP is likely to be running. I tried the two systems out on my home (debian/ubuntu linux) and University (a combination of Redhat enterprise linux and MS) servers using mysql. Textpattern set up extremely well under the two conditions (at home, I have root access to everything; at work, I have very limited privileges to the server or the database). Drupal was more problematic, and I never really did get it working exactly the way I wanted. I needed to hack one aspect of textpattern--I need a relatively static front page, and it is set up so the front page works as an RSS server--and I am having trouble with outputting search results. But otherwise I am very happy with it. I was also pleased that textpattern designers tended to use better CSS than drupal designers, though both allow you to use your own CSS. I think if I were setting up a community site, I'd work at getting drupal to work: it looks like the more sophisticated program. For my professional homepage, though I had quite specific needs--good xhtml output, a wiki-based editor, and relatively painless set up. Apart from the hack, textpattern did everything I wanted. Here's the URL to the new website if you want to see it: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ There is very little content at the new site as yet, as I only added the stuff I absolutely needed right now. But adding material is extremely easy. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair, Text Encoding Initiative, http://www.tei-c.org/ Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Vox: +1 403 329-2378 Fax: +1 403 382-7191

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Geography and the Humanities call for papers.
by Daniel O'Donnell 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

The following news item may be of interest to members on this list: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news.cfm?n_ID=72 -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor and Chair of English Chair, Text Encoding Initiative <http://www.tei-c.org/> Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 :@caedmon/ubuntu

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