Salvete,
while researching a different matter I stumbled upon the source code of William Whitaker’s WORDS-programme (Latin vocabulary). Perhaps someone can use it. Mr. Whitaker died in late 2010 (his obituary can be found on the web-site Midland Reporter-Telegram).
The source-code itself can be found at this GitHub-page.
Kudos to William Whitaker for this contribution!
Carolus Raeticus
Hello Carolus: I have collected a little code that lets me use WORDS along with the editor Emacs.
For example, with this text in Emacs:
Montium custos nemorumque virgo,
quae laborantis utero puellas
ter vocata audis adimisque leto,
diva triformis,
I can put the cursor on say custos, strike the proper key, and Emacs will display the following:
custos N 3 1 NOM S C
custos N 3 1 VOC S C
custos, custodis N (3rd) C [XXXAO]
guard; sentry/watch; guardian/protector/keeper; doorkeeper/watchman/janitor;
jailer, warden; poll watcher; spy; garrison; container; replacement vine shoot;
This can be pretty helpful with hard passages.
I’m posting this because I haven’t learned how to use textkit’s private messaging function.
Hello hlawson38!
Thank you for sharing. Perhaps you could upload it somewhere others can access it. Personally I do not use Emacs (I tried and failed miserably, silly me), but it would be certainly good to have the option.
Vale,
Carolus Raeticus
Hello Carolus,
I’ll be happy to write up a description how I did this, but I’m not sure where you mean for me to upload it. To this site?
Here’s how the process works:
load some Latin text into Emacs
select (i.e. highlight) a word in Emacs
copy the word to the Emacs kill-ring (Emacs’s form of in-program clipboard)
run Whitaker’s words as an external program with the copied word as argument
display the output of Whitakers words in Emacs
There has been some efforts done to clean up the code and develop the program further. Check out http://mk270.github.io/whitakers-words/
There hasn’t been much activity the last couple of months, though, but it is a promising initiative.