The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0256 Friday, 31 March 2006
[1] From: David Evett <
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Date: Thursday, 30 Mar 2006 14:20:39 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0250 T. W. Baldwin, William Shakespere's Small Latine
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[2] From: Larry Weiss <
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Date: Thursday, 30 Mar 2006 15:25:51 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0250 T. W. Baldwin, William Shakespere's Small Latine
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[3] From: Gabriel Egan <
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Date: Friday, 31 Mar 2006 16:11:21 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0250 T. W. Baldwin, William Shakespere's Small Latine
& Lesse Greeke
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From: David Evett <
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Date: Thursday, 30 Mar 2006 14:20:39 -0500
Subject: 17.0250 T. W. Baldwin, William Shakespere's Small
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0250 T. W. Baldwin, William Shakespere's Small
Latine & Lesse Greeke
On the inability to search the on-line Baldwin electronically (my thanks
to Gabriel Egan, who gives real meaning to the term "scholarly
community): as I recall, the index to that book is pretty thorough; that
was the only search tool for decades, indeed centuries, and a lot of
good scholarship got done. Checking indices and riffling pages has this
virtue, too, by contrast with the Find window: you sometimes stumble
over really useful stuff you didn't know you were looking for--the same
virtue as open-shelf searches for books as against the electronic catalog.
Dave Evett
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From: Larry Weiss <
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Date: Thursday, 30 Mar 2006 15:25:51 -0500
Subject: 17.0250 T. W. Baldwin, William Shakespere's Small
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0250 T. W. Baldwin, William Shakespere's Small
Latine & Lesse Greeke
Anyone who follows Gabriel Egan's copyright advice will be able to reach
me at the email address above, unless the plaintiff calls first.
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From: Gabriel Egan <
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Date: Friday, 31 Mar 2006 16:11:21 +0100
Subject: 17.0250 T. W. Baldwin, William Shakespere's Small
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0250 T. W. Baldwin, William Shakespere's Small
Latine & Lesse Greeke
Jim Blackie wrote
>The pdf file is apparently a compilation of the TIFF images
>of the pages (noted elsewhere); as such, one cannot find
>"words." There are none, as far as the search engine knows.
True-but a PDF can contain a layer of ASCII too, cunningly hidden under
the images and allowing searching that seems to perform the miracle of
reading the words in the image. You just need the ASCII, and as I said
the publisher's withholding that.
>The task must have taken an enormous amount of time . . .
Without wishing to prejudice my claim that I imbued these PDFs with my
own Intellectual Property (which as we all know is supposed to involve
straining one's mind), I can report that no, it was in fact a doddle.
WGET is a standard Unix tool (get your sysadmin to install it if it's
not there already) and it does all that I described with this simple
command:
WGET -r http://whatever.site.you.want.to.hoover
The -r switch makes it recursively borrow down to get everything. That
creates a tree including the folder full of GIFs. The product Advanced
Batch Converter (Google it for more info) turns those into TIFFs and the
full version of Adobe Acrobat allows you to import a stack of TIFFs to
make one PDF.
In all this, the software that behaved least well was, predictably, the
most expensive: Adobe Acrobat. Version 5.0 chokes on importing more than
50 TIFFs at a go, so the one bit of the job that was a fag was doing 750
images in batches of 50. That turned a 5-minute job into a 15-minute
job. I like enough SHAKSPERians well enough to spare this labour on
their behalf.
Naturally, I have no connection to the makers of WGET, Adobe Acrobat, or
Advanced Batch Converter. I'm just a satisfied user.
Gabriel Egan
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