[cgreek:00221] TLG index utilities

[Robin Smith <rasmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A couple of years ago, I wrote a small package to add to cgreek
the capability of reading the TLG word index files tlgwlist.inx
and tlgwcnts.inx and thus searching for all occurrences of word
forms in all works.  Howver, I left it in a fragmentary and
non-functioning state.  I have cleaned it up so that it seems
to install and function reasonably well on Unix-like systems (my
own is FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE).  Those interested can pick up the
tarball at:

http://aristotle.tamu.edu/~rasmith/cgreek-emacs-tlg/tlgindexutil.tgz

and a descriptive page at:

http://aristotle.tamu.edu/~rasmith/cgreek-emacs-tlg/

I'd be interested in knowing whether anyone else (a) gets it to
build, (b) finds it useful.  I have no idea whether it can be made
to build or function with Meadow.

I also have two quite primitive functions for converting cgreek
characters to RTF encodings of Unicode characters.  The conversion is
merely character-to-character, and the conversion from RTF back to
cgreek is not likely to work except on RTF that was produced in the
first place by these functions.  I find them useful because, when  I am 
forced to produce Word-processor-friendly output, I often just edit RTF
directly in Emacs: this lets me include polytonic Greek (the resulting
files look OK in OpenOffice with the New Athena Unicode font).

File:  

http://aristotle.tamu.edu/~rasmith/cgreek-emacs-tlg/cgreek-rtf-util.el.gz

Screenshot of sample text in OpenOffice:

http://aristotle.tamu.edu/~rasmith/cgreek-emacs-tlg/rtf-screenshot.jpg

Robin Smith