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Re: Gothic

From:David Starner <starner@...>
Date:Saturday, December 8, 2001, 3:27
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. -- David Starner - starner@okstate.edu, ICQ #61271672 Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org When the aliens come, when the deathrays hum, when the bombers bomb, we'll still be freakin' friends. - "Freakin' Friends"

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Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>