What it is:
The commentaries stored in this directory tree have been scanned into
ASCII form, edited by hand and converted into TeX format---from
documents FREE OF COPYRIGHT. Unlike the texts, the commentaries are
*exclusively* very old works whose copyright has run out.
Contributing:
Please, PLEASE contribute to this library. Find a commentary whose
copyright has run out (copyrighted more than 75 years ago if by a
company---if the rights were held by a person, there's a bit more work
to be done to find out if the copyright has expired or not), scan it in,
and send it to me (
[email protected]) by e-mail. The more
people contribute, the larger a library this can be.
TeX:
TeX is a good (and free!) typesetter; but if you don't have the program,
having the files in that format will not help you. Therefore, in the
Utils directory is a program "tex2asc", a rudimentary TeX-to-ASCII
converter. It was written solely for the purpose of converting these
particular commentaries into ASCII form, so it probably won't work if
you try to use it on any more complicated TeX document.
However, you will have to compile it:
machine% cc tex2asc.c -o tex2asc
before you can use it:
machine% tex2asc < auc1.tex > auc1.txt
machine% tex2asc -w 50 < aeneid1.tex > aeneid1.txt
Although the example aboves assumes Unix, a similar compilation process
will yield an executable under VMS or MS-DOS. I will soon be able to
provide executables for MS-DOS and MacOS, for those who do not have C
compilers.
If you do plan to use TeX to format the commentaries, make sure that you
have the file "ks_macros.tex", also stored in the Utils directory. This
file contains macros needed by some of the commentaries.
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Present collection:
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Coming soon:
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apocnote.tex.Z seneca B Ball's commentary on Seneca's Apocolocyntosis.
