[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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