Re: VMs: Is there a plain best-guess transcription?

["Michael Winkelmann" <DasWinkelmann@xxxxxx>]

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From: Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: VMs: Is there a plain best-guess transcription?

Hello Rene, hello Pierre,

> > I tried it and it doesn't work. First I tried the
> > executable VTT, but it's
> > compiled for a Sparc. Then I tried "gcc -o vtt
> > VTT.C" (...)

that's exactly what I'd done a few weeks ago, and after reading gcc's
documentation I found the (very seldom seen) options needed for
compiling that old-style C program.

But the resulting binary produced a incorrect output. So I looked into
the source, found it hard to read and understand (it is old-style C,
without  function prototypes, uses constant string buffers for creating
strings) - and I wrote my own little tool for text extraction.

My program is written in Perl. There is a Perl interpreter available for
nearly every platform - I use the same program on MS/DOS and Linux.

If you want to take a look at the program, you will find it under

    http://download.freie-literatur.de/voytool.zip

You are prompted for a username and a password. Use the following

    Username: download
    Password: download

The ZIP archive contains documentation for the program and a little perl
script which formats a transcription to HTML (with very good formatting
for comparing the transcription to the manuscript picutures).

> - the format of the interlinear at Stolfi's site
>   is no longer exactly according to the definition
>   when VTT was written. This might be why it does
>   not find any particular transcription (e.g. H).

I hope my little tool is easier to adapt to future format changes.

If there are some people interested in the tool, I would improve it a
little bit. Feel free to give me feedback.

Michael

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