[cgreek:00318] TLG index utilities

[william.furley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

-- I'll try in a few days time. Thanks for the notification.

Bill Furley (Classics, Heidelberg).
>>>>> ">" == Robin Smith <rasmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    >> About three years ago, I circulated some simple utilities for
    >> reading and searching the TLG's word form indexes from within
    >> emacs, using the cgreek package.  With the release of cgreek
    >> for emacs-21, that package became obsolete, and I have not been
    >> able to update it until recently.  I now have a new version
    >> with some very minor fixes that (as I hope, anyway) should work
    >> with both emacs-20 and emacs-21 (the package should detect the
    >> version and behave accordingly).

    >> There were two problems with the older package, one downright
    >> stupid and one concerning emacs-20 vs. emacs-21.  The stupid
    >> mistake was that I used strlcat and strlcpy, which aren't
    >> present in libc on (say) Linux; I replaced them with the (less
    >> safe) strncat and strncpy.  The version problem was that the
    >> versions of tlg2emacs supplied with cgreek-emacs20 and with
    >> cgreek21 have different calling syntax, so I needed to add a
    >> test of emacs-major-version to some functions in
    >> cgreek-tlgindexutil.el to get the right number of parameters.

    >> Otherwise, these are still relatively primitive utilities, but
    >> they do permit one to extract and use the information on word
    >> form occurrences found in the TLG's indexes.  If anyone else
    >> should happen to succeed in getting this to work, I'd be
    >> interested to know:

    >> Information at
    >> http://aristotle.tamu.edu/~rasmith/cgreek-tlgindexutil/

    >> Tarball at
    >> http://aristotle.tamu.edu/~rasmith/cgreek-tlgindexutil/tlgindexutil.tgz


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