3.1350 Queries (89)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 3 May 90 16:50:26 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1350. Thursday, 3 May 1990.


(1) Date: Wed, 2 May 90 16:51:26 EDT (32 lines)
From: David R. Sewell <dsew@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: Query on Software for Collaborative Writing

(2) Date: Wed, 02 May 90 22:39:38 PDT (15 lines)
From: MHEIM@CALSTATE
Subject: "Syntonics"?

(3) Date: Thu, 3 May 90 17:55 GMT (20 lines)
From: <GC130@DSIHRZ51>
Subject: queries

(4) Date: Thu, 3 May 90 18:08 GMT (11 lines)
From: Stephen Miller <STEPHEN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: query for humanist

(5) Date: Wed, 02 May 90 21:27:43 EDT (11 lines)
From: John Unsworth <JMUEG@NCSUVM>
Subject: nodes in Algeria?

(6) Date: Thu, 3 May 90 11:10:41 EDT (10 lines)
From: mcs@iris.brown.edu (Mark C. Sawtelle)
Subject: Network nodes [eds]

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Date: Wed, 2 May 90 16:51:26 EDT
From: David R. Sewell <dsew@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: Query on Software for Collaborative Writing

I would very much appreciate hearing from anyone who has advice about
appropriate software to use for collaborative writing instruction in a
networked writing lab. My English Department and our Computer Center
are working to put together a proposal for upgrading our lab before next
year's budget line closes, and the one area where we need additional
information is that of academic software, since this is new territory
for us.

We are going to be creating a LAN of between 16-20 machines, mostly
Macintosh Pluses. What we would like to find, if possible, is software
that will allow collaborative real-time annotation of a text by groups
of variable sizes (from 2-5) on the networked machines. The idea would
be to have several students working together simultaneously on a single
document, with each of them able to add comments that would be embedded
in the document, and which could then become the basis for revision of
the document; each student's comments, ideally, would be identified by a
distinctive font or marker.

We already have Timbuktu, which permits several users simultan- eously
to see and work on the same object under whatever program they are
running, but its limitation is that turn-taking must be managed verbally
or else users "compete" chaotically for the power to modify. We are
wondering if there are programs that do the managing automatically. If
you have suggestions about any other software that you have found
valuable in a lab of this sort, I'd be glad to hear about that too.
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| David Sewell, English Dep't, University of Rochester, New York USA |
| dsew@uhura.cc.rochester.edu || dsew%uhura.cc.rochester.edu@uorvm |
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Date: Wed, 02 May 90 22:39:38 PDT
From: MHEIM@CALSTATE
Subject: "Syntonics"?

Somewhere -- I wish I knew in what book -- I came across a reference to
"syntonics." The term had to do with establishing the tone of a piece
of writing. The book, best as I can recall, was a semi-popular
treatment of rhetoric, of how to get your message across. Can anyone
refer me to a book that has a chapter on "syntonics"?

Mike Heim
Cal State Long Beach
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Date: Thu, 3 May 90 17:55 GMT
From: <GC130@DSIHRZ51>
Subject: queries

Dear Humanists,

A student who is working at a thesis on Kaspar Hauser asked me to put
this querie onto the HUMANIST board:

At the moment I am working at my thesis entitled "The myth of Kaspar
Hauser in German Literature during the 20th Century". Above all I am
generally interested in poems which recur to this myth. In addition to
this, I'll deal with the function of the myth of Kaspar Hauser in
anthroposophical literature. But this intention poses some problems:
There is no anthroposophical bibliography which could help me to find
the primary literature (poems, novels, dramatic texts). Therefore I
would be very greatful for any hints.

Thanks in advance

If anyone can give some hints I will forward them.
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Date: Thu, 3 May 90 18:08 GMT
From: Stephen Miller <STEPHEN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: query for humanist

A friend is using a music publishing package called SCORE (version 2.14)
from 'Passport Designs' (Calif. USA) and is encountering some more than
modest difficulties with it. Does anyone in HUMANIST land know anything
about this package? Does anybody know of an email address for the
company?

Stephen Miller
Oxford University Computing Service
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Date: Wed, 02 May 90 21:27:43 EDT
From: John Unsworth <JMUEG@NCSUVM>
Subject: nodes in Algeria?

I'm interested in getting in touch with a colleague in Oran, Algeria.
Does anyone out there know if Bitnet or Internet has a node in Oran, or
elsewhere in Algeria, or if there is some other way to e-mail there?
Thanks,

John Unsworth
Bitnet: jmueg@ncsuvm
Internet: jmueg@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu
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Date: Thu, 3 May 90 11:10:41 EDT
From: mcs@iris.brown.edu (Mark C. Sawtelle)
Subject: Re: 3.1346 Queries: File conversion; Network nodes + QUERY

I'd like to to know about nodes in Czechoslovakia.

Mark C. Sawtelle
Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS)
Brown University