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Author: Ondrej Tichy (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague)
Email: ondrej dot tichy at jitro dot net
Date: 2007-05-13 17:50:42
Subject: Re: LaTeX version of B-T
Keith,
The typeset version is surely valuable as are the errors detected on the way. My comments were be no means meant to dissuade you from your effort & thanks for that again.
Ondrej
> Ondrej: thanks very much for your ideas. My thinking is slightly different:
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> 1. Making the LaTeX conversion has value in that it locates errors. These are simple html errors which are easily fixed.
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> 2. I already have a typeset file which is of acceptable quality. Since it is produced by a python script with no human intervention, it is easily re-run whenever the oe_bosworthtoller.txt file is updated. It is quite smart and can cope with irregularities of the format.
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> So I think I will continue to develop this while I wait for the other corrections.
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> Keith