LINGUIST List 3.862

Thu 05 Nov 1992

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1. Thierry van Steenberghe, Re: 3.856 Queries: Computers, Articles, Addresses
2. , Re: 3.186 Software available
3. , Spell Checkers

Message 1: Re: 3.856 Queries: Computers, Articles, Addresses

Asmawi Mohamad asks for LISP implementations on PC platforms.
I don't know MacLISP, but I could indicate several LISP packages on PC,
e.g. - LeLisp by INRIA-France is a relatively small package, and is sort-of
 'dialectal' LISP (this is no pejorative..., there exist many
 such dialects for LISP as for other programming languages.)
 I ought to mention that the version I've tried is already old.
 - Golden Common LISP (GCLISP) by Golden Hill Computers-USA is a pretty
 extensive package: as the name implies, it is a Common LISP,
 (actually a superset of it), meaning the standard Common LISP
 instructions are all included. It includes GMACS, an editor
 rather similar to the EMACS standard.
Both packages work under DOS, GCLISP requiring 4 MB of RAM memory, but it can
then run on a 286 machine.
I hope this helps.

Thierry J. van Steenberghe
Permanent e-mail: <tvsetal.ucl.ac.be>

GENESE Research Group
University of Louvain - UCL
Institute of Linguistics
Place Blaise Pascal, 1
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)

Tel.: +32 (0)10 47 4942
Fax : +32 (0)10 47 2579

Message 2: Re: 3.186 Software available

 Last year Stephen Clausing of Yale was distributing MacConcordance via
the *Humanist* list. I have a copy, but you can reach him directly
as far as I know at Yale. If you want me to forward my compressed etc.
version, let me know.

Leslie Morgan (MORGANLOYVAX.BITNET)
Dept. of Modern Langs. and Lits.
Loyola College in Md.

I use Word Perfect 5.1 with spellcheckers for Italian, French,
and German. These work fine, with a few caveats:

1. there are no proper names included.
2. DO NOT buy Italian earlier than 5.0; all words have a
written accent on them, and were clearly entered by someone
who hadn't the foggiest idea of Italian usage. WP corporation
hired an Italian to do the 5.0 versions, which evidently actually
search by parsing for the possible forms.
3. you can add your own words; if students will be using the
dictionaries on a network, you might want to add common proper
names/nouns and other frequent forms, then "close" that version on
the network.

There are also dictionary/spellcheckers for the MacIntosh versions
of Word Perfect; I have only tried the earlier one (with WP 1.x)
and have found it cumbersome, since you can only use one dictionary
per document. With the IBM & clone you can use any number (I've
made up my own for Latin, since I frequently have Latin quotes) and
in fact, you could make up your own rather than spending $100 + if
you have student labor to type in words for you.

Good luck and I hope this helps

Leslie Morgan (MORGANLOYVAX.BITNET)
Dept. of Modern Langs. and Lits.
Loyola College in Maryland (USA)