Greetings All,
I have been lurking (and enjoying! ) all the conversations. Thanks for the great site !
I am a palm user and depend on it like a third arm (I manage a large IT infrastructure for the University of Virgina Libraries). I needed also to work on my vocabulary in greek (my hobby and passion). I found a vendor SouthPaw on the web that makes a nice tool (MiniFlash) http://www.telusplanet.net/public/spaw/ for creating vocabulary databases . There are several databases (Mounce, Latin, others) avaliable, but none are Attic or Homeric. The tool has a Windows front end that will allow conversion of comma delimited files and create the appropriate palm pdb file. You can have multiple databases! The scholar full version ($18.95) includes fully acceented greek and Hebrew fonts (diacriticals). The greek for the most part follows Mounceās greek font (teknia).and key mappings.
I have not purchased the package yet (but am seriously considering it!), and would be curious to find if anyone would be interested in vocabulary data sets for Pharr, and Mastronarde, possibly others. I should be able to create a tool to automate the creation of the vocabulary sets. In theory, one could actually automate a tool to extract from Perseus and create the proper csv file to create the database for the palm (but that is a bit more than I want to chew right now).
Anyway, just curious to see if anyone else has experience with this software tool for a palm.
I am waiting for my own copy of Pharrā¦from Amazon (ordered thru textkit of course!) Someone has recalled the copy I have from the libraryā¦
thanks for your support, and the great lead on what looks to be very cool software. Iām going to contact them. Also, if youāre with the University of Virginia, might I ask (or beg) for any nice library links back to Textkit should you know the right people to contact. I have been unsuccessful in getting a link here: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/gr-off.html for example.
I too am a Palm freak, itās not a P.D.A. to me but an R.E.D. (Relationship Enhancement Device) because Iām far less forgetful which keeps my wife happy.
Let me suggest too that if the table structure is simple, it would be a snap to export our own vocabulary list into a file that could be imported into the software. We donāt currently have Greek vocab, but itāll come shortly.
Jeff,
The server that etext.lib.virginia.edu is one of my (many servers). I āknowā the right people and we can get you linked inā¦no problem. Also can get you any books (interlibrary loan works well here!) that we may haveā¦
I just got a copy of Seymourās āHomeric Language and Verseā as well as a copy of D.B Monroās Homeric grammar to check outā¦
I look forward to helping out where I mightā¦
Paul,
I will put together the formatā¦it is indeed really simple (I think 4 or 5 fields).
It is documented in the documentation provided with the toolā¦ I have not had time (of late) to spend with your fine tool to experiment. I did get it installed though. Too many systems problems and employee issuesā¦ ;-/
Thanks very much Guy. I will try to make short work of it. AGTM is about ready to be unleashed on the millions of greek scholars out there who are just clamoring for groovy softwareā¦wait, thatās not right; I must be hallucinating.
) all the conversations. Thanks for the great site !