Re: Gothic

On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 10:36:12AM +1100, Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
> > Am 06.12.01, David Starner yscrifef:
> >
> > > My library has a copy of "A Gothic Primer", by Joseph Wright, from the
> > > early 20th century. I could scan it for you, if you want. (Yes, I'm
> > > serious; as I mentioned earlier, scanning and editing stuff for Project
> > > Gutenberg, which posts public domain stuff on the web, is a hobby for
> > > me.)
>
> Still waiting for the original post...
>
> I'd love that if you've got the time! As Padraic mentioned, would the
> thorn and hvair come out nicely? And what format would it be in?
Then you probably haven't got the later message, where I realize that the
version of "A Gothic Primer" my library has is still under copyright. I
can offer you Wilhelm Braune's "Gotische Grammatik", instead, if you
read German. I can give you some poorly edited OCR's, along with black
and white scans for where the OCR's are incoherant.

ABBYY FineReader is a pretty decent program for this. My version won't
let me define a new language, but I can tell it the text is in Icelandic
and train it to think the hvair is a oe ligature. The catch is the
polytonic Greek - ABBYY does monotonic Greek only. Still, pretty
impressive for a $100 program.

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