LINGUIST List 9.1377

Sun Oct 4 1998

Books: Computers & Linguistics

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1. Daniel [** iso-8859-1 charset **] Ria\241o, Macintosh applications on Classical philology

Riao Rufilanchas, Daniel. 1998. "Aplicaciones de Macintosh a la filolog'ia
cl'asica." Madrid: Ediciones Cl'asicas. (X + 180 pages, paperback, ISBN:
84-7882-342-5, 1,300 pts; roughly equal to $8). (in Spanish. English title:
"Macintosh Applications for the Classical Philology").


This book offers information on computer applications of interest for
students, researchers and scholars in the field of Classics (ancient Greek
and Latin), including papyrologists and epigraphists. It also contains a
long section that examines the existing text databases (TLG, PHI, CETEDOC
CD-ROMs, etc) and bibliographic databases (DBC, Dyabola, etc), even when
the retrieval software is not implemented for the Macintosh platform. It
deals extensively with font and keyboard issues, and other aspects of the
personal computer use that are most likely to appeal the philologist or
linguist working with ancient Greek or Latin texts.

Summary of the table of contents:

1. Conceptos b'asicos (Basic Concepts)
2. Fuentes y Teclado (Fonts and keyboard)
3. Programas de uso general empleados en el trabajo filol'ogico (General
purpose programs often used in the philological work)
4. Bases de datos textuales y bibliogr'aficas (Text and bibliographical
data bases)
5. Aplicaciones espec'ificas para filolog'ia cl'asica (Programs
specifically designed for the Classical philology)
6. Utilidades generales especialmente (All-purpose utilities)
7. Presentaci'on e intercambio de documentos en formato electr'onico
(electronic-format documents interchange and presentation)
Apndice 1. Direcciones de Internet (Internet addresses)
Apndice 2. Glosario de t'erminos t'ecnicos (Technical terms glossary)
Apndice 3. Distribuidores de los productos (Products distributors)
Apndice 4. 'Indice temtico (Thematic index).

You can ask for the book to:

Ediciones Cl'asicas
San Maximo, 31, 4: 8
28041-Madrid
Spain
(No eMail or WWW address yet)

Please, contact with the author for more information about the book at
danielrrmad.servicom.es. Addenda to book can be obtained via e-mail at the
same address, and will be published in the author's Web page in the next
weeks.

___________________________________________________________________
Daniel Riao Rufilanchas
c. Santa Engracia 52, 7 dcha.
28010-Madrid, Espaa
___________________________________________________________________

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