I am producing a concordance of the English vernacular texts that scholarship allows as Wycliffite or Lollard in persuasion. I would like to add more texts, and am attempting to work out a few issues on which I wondered if anyone might have advice.
For information I have recently been using R.J.C. Watt's programme Concordance (http://www.concordancesoftware.co.uk/); however, due to a significant problem with hyphenated words---Watt's Help file specifically states that it does not treat hyphenated words, which are divided between 2 lines, as single words---I am thinking of switching back to TACT or to another programme.
It's been some years since I used TACT. Is anyone fluent in TACT and willing to field the odd question or two which Ian Lancashire's book Using TACT with Electronic Texts does not answer? Or, alternatively, can anyone recommend a better programme?
Line numbering: Aside from keying in line numbers by hand (which I have been doing), is there a macro or application that can automate the line numbering process in large numbers of texts in Word or Word Pad?
Page numbering: As above, is there a macro or application that can automate the page numbering process in large numbers of texts? NB: the end of the printed page in electronic format rarely corresponds with the end of a Word or Word Pad page.
Many thanks for any suggestions anyone might be able to make. ---Laurie
Laurie Ringer Assistant Professor of English Canadian University College Lacombe, AB T4L 2E5 (phone) 403.782.3381, ext. 4085 (fax) 403.782.0735