Clement: To the Newly Baptized
Peter Kirby
kirby at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 7 23:43:42 EDT 2002
This text is available on the net for the first time, both in English and in
Greek.
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/clement-baptized-uni.html
This was the first task in which I used my "Automatic Diacritics" script,
and I am pleased with the results. The extent to which the text was
automatically accented can be seen by looking at the unedited version (link
ephemeral):
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/baptized-unedited.txt
The trick seems to be to type the text without any checking--since you
cannot predict which words will be in the database--and then to revise the
text, inserting the diacritics in the unchanged words and checking that all
the words are properly marked up. Here is the revised text:
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/baptized.txt
Interestingly, the program acts as a sort of spellchecker, because a word
that does not exist in the database will get special attention. I caught
one spelling error this way.
To get the Unicode, I ran the Beta Code file through this converter.
http://www.jiffycomp.com/smr/unicode/
And, the macro file is available here.
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/autobeta.zip
I expanded the database to include not only the NA-26 Greek New Testament
but also the complete Septuagint, the first seven books of the Antiquities
by Josephus, and a portion of the Lexicon of Photius. Unfortunately the
macro file cannot be expanded any further than about 32,000 entries. So I
was forced to include only those words that appear more than once in the
corpus. If a particular word occurs frequently in the documents that you
transcribe, you can add it to the macro file.
The NoteTab program is available here.
http://www.notetab.com/download.htm
If you have any questions or suggestions about the "AutoBeta" program,
please contact me off-list.
best,
Peter Kirby
Early Christian Writings - 30 to 200
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
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