21.284 Diogenes 3.1 for PHI Latin & Greek CDs

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 284.
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         Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:22:22 +0100
         From: Peter Heslin <p.j.heslin_at_DURHAM.AC.UK>
         Subject: Announcing: Diogenes version 3.1

Announcing the release of version 3.1 of Diogenes, a free program for
reading the databases of Latin and Greek texts published on CD-Rom by
the Packard Humanities Institute and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae.

http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/

The major new feature in this version is that, thanks to the
generosity of the Perseus project, morphological data and dictionaries
for Latin (Lewis-Short) and Greek (LSJ) and are built-in. This means
that you can:

* Click on a word in the texts and get a morphological analysis and
    the corresponding dictionary entry instantly, even if you are not
    connected to the Internet.

* Click to analyze words in the dictionary entries themselves, or
    click on the citation information of a passage cited in the
    dictionary to jump to the context of the passage in the Latin or
    Greek database.

* Do morphologically intelligent searching, i.e. search for all of the
    inflected forms of a given dictionary headword.

* Look up words in the dictionaries.

In addition, version 3 of Diogenes is newly based on the Firefox
browser and should be very easy to install, much more so than
previously. Easy-to-install packages are provided for Mac OS X,
Windows, and Linux. Installation just takes a couple of clicks.

Version 3.1 also includes a number of new features that had long been
requested:

* Unicode input (now the default).

* Saving user-defined subsets of the databases for repeated searching.

* Running marginal numeration when browsing through a text.

* Improved Unicode output.

* For network installations, individual user settings (via cookies).

-- 
Dr Peter Heslin | Durham University         Tel. +44 (0)191 334 1682
Department of Classics and Ancient History  Fax. +44 (0)191 334 1671
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