I’ve been working on a tool for speeding up the unpleasant task of adding macrons to Latin texts: http://fps-vogel.github.io/maccer/. It’s not quite done yet, but it’s usable and time slips away.
Maybe some of you could help me in the biggest area of improvement: the procurement of more Latin texts with macrons already, to “teach” the program more word forms. Here’s what it uses so far:
Alatii Recitationes - Catulli carmen 42, De Bello Gallico 6.26-28, Livii Ab Urbe Condita XXVI.40-41, Ovidii Metamorphoses Liber I, Tacitī Annālium Liber Prīmus, Ōrātiō in Catilīnam Prīma DCC - Aeneid Books 3-6, Ovid / Amores Book I, Sulpicius Severus / The Life of Saint Martin,
Julius Caesar / Selections from the Gallic Wars, Cornelius Nepos / Life of Hannibal
Laura Gibbs’ Ictibus Felicibus
Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles
IUPPITER ET CALLISTO - Metamorphoses, selections (source)
hi, i suggest you also program in all the “hidden” long vowels before 2 consonants listed in bennett’s latin language on pgs 56 and ff (i tried a few of these and your program didn’t recognise the hidden longs), here:
I updated the beginning of the Q&A section on that page to address that issue. Of the words in that list, all the forms that the program knows have the hidden vowel marked, but it does not know most of the forms of those words because of the way it learns word forms.
Let me know if the Q&A section isn’t clear. I tried to keep it short so as not to ramble.
ah OK thanks, i didn’t read the Q&A, i just tried it straight away - when i saw your initial post about speeding up the task of adding macrons, it took me back to when i went through cicero’s pro archia, manually reading through bennett’s list and adding in the macrons one by one, word by word - i thought your program would be perfect to automate that process, if there were a one-off way to teach your program these hidden longs (rather than learning them from a pre-marked text, the way your program has been taught to date).
i think the hidden longs in this list from bennett are the hard longs to remember personally, and so if there were some way to automate marking them up in the future it would be super useful! cheers, chad
I hear you on the hidden long vowels–as if adding macrons to a text weren’t a task laborious enough already, we have those to worry about.
Currently I’m pursuing a list of all inflected forms of Lewis & Short entries that I heard is underway. If that list exists and is freely available, I will be able to use it as a source text for the program, and its vocabulary will vastly improve. I’m crossing my fingers…