Guest guest Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 Ok, I've sent out another batch of texts, the same ones, different people. Again, if you missed them, or I sent you a message saying that your email bounced I'm sorry I couldn't break them down into smaller packages. Al Stone told me he would be happy to host them as downloads, perhaps CHA will do the same. I'm not precisly sure what form they will take at David Botton's website, if they are posted individually it will be much easier to download them all as zip files. I'm hopeful that in a wiki-environment there can be some colaboration on translating and enhancing the texts for others to use and enjoy. I foresee a time in another month or so when I will have the remainder of the things that I have sorted and will be able to send them out as a suppement to these texts. I have also started working on a set of English titles for things based on the generously provided Eastland press bibliography, though any mistakes or hinky English will in all likelyhood be mine and mine alone. Please keep in touch and let me know if you have any questions, or find any further resources, Par Scott, MAOM, Lic Ac 19 Belmont St Cambridge MA 02138 617 499 2957 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 3, 2007 Report Share Posted February 3, 2007 ftp://gancao.net/classics/ There, you'll see seven zipped documents. Download one or all. On 2/2/07, Par Scott <parufus wrote: > > Ok, I've sent out another batch of texts, Al Stone told me he would be > happy to host them as downloads > -- Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 Al What program are these files ftp://gancao.net/classics/. My computer did not recognize the files - Al Stone Saturday, February 03, 2007 12:11 PM Re: Text Project ftp://gancao.net/classics/ There, you'll see seven zipped documents. Download one or all. On 2/2/07, Par Scott <parufus wrote: > > Ok, I've sent out another batch of texts, Al Stone told me he would be > happy to host them as downloads > -- Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 On 2/18/07, Alon Marcus <alonmarcus wrote: > > Al > What program are these files ftp://gancao.net/classics/.<ftp://gancao.net/classics/>My computer did not recognize the files > Yes, of course. Formal introductions should be made. Obviously those that you'll see at the ftp site are all " zipped " documents that are compressed to a smaller size to enable quicker downloads. Once they've been downloaded, your computer may automagically " unzip " them or ask you for permission before doing so. In the event that neither of these scenarios come to pass, double clicking on the files that end in " .zip " will usually bring up a utility such as " stuffit " or " winzip " that will enable you to decompress them into their own folders. Inside the folders, some of the documents will end in " .txt " which is to say that they are text documents and will display on most word processing programs. Where the document does not end in " txt " , your computer may think that these are executable files. My mac does, but they're actually still just text files. If you add the extension " .txt " to them, your computer will better trust them and be opened by your operating system's text editor. On Mac, that's " text edit " though I myself use " BB Edit " . On Windows machines I believe that there is a simple text editor that comes bundled in the Operating System. Probably includes the word " text " in its name. If you only see gibberish once you open them, then your computer isn't configured to read Chinese characters. If the gibberish looks like Chinese characters, then the problem isn't in your computer, but the fact that you can't read Chinese. As mentioned in this forum elsewhere, Wenlin is a translation program with some good search capability so if you put all of these documents into one folder, you can search for specific characters from among all 422 documents. Its neat. -al. -- Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 The windows version of the program is called " notepad " and it will open these files provided you have a unicode capable machine, windows 2000 or later I think, and some chinese fonts installed (there's a free windos service pack which I think comes with a couple of fairly extensive chinese fonts.) Also check out http://www.mandarintools.com/dimsum.html which has a free text reader with a variety of options that make it a nice compliment to Wenlin if you already have it, or a slightly wan substitute if you don't. Par - " Al Stone " <al Sunday, February 18, 2007 1:45 PM Re: Text Project > On 2/18/07, Alon Marcus <alonmarcus wrote: >> >> Al >> What program are these files >> ftp://gancao.net/classics/.<ftp://gancao.net/classics/>My computer did >> not recognize the files >Yes, of course. Formal introductions should be made. > > Obviously those that you'll see at the ftp site are all " zipped " documents > that are compressed to a smaller size to enable quicker downloads. Once > they've been downloaded, your computer may automagically " unzip " them or > ask > you for permission before doing so. In the event that neither of these > scenarios come to pass, double clicking on the files that end in " .zip " > will > usually bring up a utility such as " stuffit " or " winzip " that will enable > you to decompress them into their own folders. > > Inside the folders, some of the documents will end in " .txt " which is to > say > that they are text documents and will display on most word processing > programs. Where the document does not end in " txt " , your computer may > think > that these are executable files. My mac does, but they're actually still > just text files. If you add the extension " .txt " to them, your computer > will > better trust them and be opened by your operating system's text editor. On > Mac, that's " text edit " though I myself use " BB Edit " . On Windows machines > I > believe that there is a simple text editor that comes bundled in the > Operating System. Probably includes the word " text " in its name. > > If you only see gibberish once you open them, then your computer isn't > configured to read Chinese characters. If the gibberish looks like Chinese > characters, then the problem isn't in your computer, but the fact that you > can't read Chinese. As mentioned in this forum elsewhere, Wenlin is a > translation program with some good search capability so if you put all of > these documents into one folder, you can search for specific characters > from > among all 422 documents. Its neat. > > -al. > > -- > > Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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