[cgreek:00345] Re: epsilon, omicron + circumflex

[Bill Furley <william.furley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "RS" == Robin Smith <rasmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    RS> In response to Bill Furley's question, I did write a primitive
    RS> utility to search for word occurrences using the TLG's own
    RS> index file.  It's relatively simple: I just parse the index of
    RS> word forms and use grep externally to match word forms, then
    RS> pipe the output into a buffer where each matching word form
    RS> displays in Greek.  Each word is then linked to a call of a
    RS> second external utility which gets the list of occurrences of
    RS> the word in question from the TLG word count index, either for
    RS> a particular author or for all authors, returning a list by
    RS> author and work; items in the list can be used as links to
    RS> open the relevant works.  That's as far as it goes: the TLG
    RS> word counts index only contains information on how many times
    RS> a given word occurs in a given work, not what the locations of
    RS> those occurrences are, so you've got to open the work and
    RS> search (much easier with Takahashi's incremental search).  It
    RS> does, however, save a lot of time, and sometimes just knowing
    RS> the word is or isn't there (or how common it is) is enough.

    RS> This is, as I said, a pretty primitive thing.  I've used it
    RS> under FreeBSD and several Linux variants.  Since it supposes
    RS> you've got grep available, I don't know how hard it would be
    RS> to port it to Meadow.  It also has one glaring omission: you
    RS> can look up occurrences of an author provided you know that
    RS> author's TLG author number (e.g. Plato is 0059, Aristotle is
    RS> 0086), but I haven't fixed up an interface to take an author's
    RS> name and turn it into a number.  Moreover, since the TLG word
    RS> index is an index of actual words, you can't directly do
    RS> something like looking up all the occurrences of all the forms
    RS> of FE/RW (or even all the forms of LU/W).  And when you look
    RS> for the word in the text, you have to take account of problems
    RS> with case and accent variation and words split by embedded
    RS> hyphens at line or section breaks.  On the other hand, using
    RS> the index has the advantage that *it* knows about accent
    RS> changes and line/section breaks, so it will know about all the
    RS> occurrences of )AGAQO/N, even those that appear as )AGAQO\N or
    RS> )AGA- QO\N or )A*GA- QO\N (though you still have to find them
    RS> yourself).

    RS> See http://aristotle.tamu.edu/~rasmith/cgreek-tlgindexutil/ if
    RS> you're interested.  I'm not really sure whether anyone else
    RS> has used this.


    RS> Robin Smith Department of Philosophy rasmith@xxxxxxxx Texas
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Robin, I used your utility a bit with cgreek20; from some email in the
past I had the impression you hadn't updated it to cgreek21. Obviously
I was wrong and will try out your utility again. In the past I even
got it working with emacs on windows XP, but now, like you, I'm using
Debian Linux on a laptop (and emacs21).

Bill Furley