[B-Greek] B-Greek Archive searching
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Jan 12 05:52:06 EST 2008
On Jan 12, 2008, at 3:02 AM, Anita Clerke wrote:
> Is there a way of searching all the B-Greek archives, without having
> to open each month's subject heading (ie. view by [Subject] ), and
> then searching using Apple-F on a Mac OS 10.4.11?
Perhaps it's time to repeat my message from last September:
(1) Curtis Hinson’s (Jun 25, 2005, at 9:46) search device:
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“Just download this tiny ZIP file I made:
http://curtishinson.com/bgreek.zip
‘Once you have the zip file, drag the file bgreek.reg inside it onto
your desktop, double click it, and answer the prompt that comes up.
You can get rid of the reg file and the ZIP once you’ve done that.
"Now you should be able to search B-Greek by typing “bgreek”, a space,
and keywords in your browser’s address bar to find messages in the
archive.
"Disclaimer: I tested this on Internet Explorer and on Firefox on
Windows XP. I think it should work on most or all Microsoft Windows
varieties of IE. If it doesn’t work for you, it shouldn’t do any
harm, it just won’t work. The capability is built into MS TweakUI by
the way, I just found the reg key it creates.
URL (http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/) will take you to the
B-Greek archives and let you access all messages by thread, subject,
author, or date from any engine at http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/archives/index.html)
First let me note that it’s easier to find things in the archives if
you use standard BG transliteration and search using key words in a
text that you’re inquiring about, e.g. PISTIS IHSOU CRISTOU or SWTHRIA
or DOULOS. (Note: only recently have we allowed citation of Greek
texts in Unicode fonts and we still ask those who use the Unicode
fonts to include a standard BG transliteration; consequently a search
using standard BG transliteration is better for finding discussions of
words or groups of words in a text from our archives that go back to
1995).
Searches based on scriptural references may not get all the hits that
would be proper because b-greekers use half a dozen different
spellings and reference styles for references.
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(2) Firefox B-Greek search plugin (created by Bob Firth, 9/7/2005):
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=b-greek&submitform=Find+search+plugins
= http://tinyurl.com/38223s
(3) An older device (you have to add the word or words of your
search to this):
http://lists.ibiblio.org/htdig/cgi-bin/htsearch?%20config=htdig&restrict=%2Fpipermail%2Fb-greek&words=
= http://tinyurl.com/yw2ptl
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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