Thursday, August 24, 2006

User database: Tacitus' Works (Latin)

Someone asked about Tacitus' Works on the BW forums. Dan Dyke and his friendly helpers at Dabar.org have been (and still are) hard at work digitizing some great works (such as Tacitus, Marcus Aurelius and many more) for use in BibleWorks. I believe Dan's version is based on that found at SacredTexts.org. I thought it would be useful to have multiple versions of Tacitus available so I also added the versions which are found at Perseus. You can use the Text Comparison feature in BibleWorks to use the two texts in tandem or in the parallel versions window.

So far Dan has only completed the Histories (both in English and Latin). I have in my module the Histories and the Annals both in Latin. One minor stitch that we'll have to work out is book names. Right now I've used the following book name line:

ths,Histories,Histories,ths
tan,Annals,Annals,tan
but Dan has used a different one. If you want to use both of these versions in tandem, Dan and I either have to agree on book names, which might happen :) , or you would simply have to rename the chapters in the tac.txt file by using the Replace All function.

I'll let you know when we get that fixed.

Update: Dan is going to change some of his book names so it matches my suggestion. This will make things easier for users.

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