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- Conc: a concordance generator for the Macintosh
-
- Conc produces concordances of texts. A concordance consists
- of a list of the words in the text with a short section of the
- context that precedes and follows each word. Conc also produces an
- index, consisting of a list of the distinct words in the text,
- each with the number of times it occurs and a list of the places
- where it occurs. Conc displays the original text, the concordance,
- and the index each in its own window. Clicking on a word in any
- one of the three windows causes the other two windows to display
- the entries for the same word.
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- Conc permits the user to define the sorting order and to
- limit the concordance to words that match specified patterns
- (GREP expressions).
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- Conc will do concordances both on ordinary flat text files
- and also on multiple-line interlinear texts. In the case of
- interlinear texts, the concordance can be limited to selected
- lines (fields). In addition to word concording, Conc can also
- produce a concordance of each letter in a text or body of
- phonological data. Pattern-matching facilities are also available
- to letter concordances, so the user can specify search patterns
- that will have the effect of retrieving, say, words containing
- intervocalic obstruents.
-
- Concordances can be both printed and exported to plain text
- files. As for performance, on a Mac IIci Conc can produce a
- concordance of Moby Dick (1,177KB) in about 13 minutes and
- requires about 2,500KB of memory.
-
- Conc version 1.70 is a beta test version offered as 'freeware'. If
- you use it, we only ask that you send us your comments, complaints,
- and wishlist. You can affect the shape of the final product!
- Documentation is included on-disk in a Microsoft Word file.
-
- Conc is available in either of two way:
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- 1. Conc can be downloaded by anonymous FTP from the Consortium
- for Lexical Research at clr.nmsu.edu [128.123.1.12]. In the directory
- pub/tools/concordances/conc you will find the file conc170.hqx,
- which is a binhexed, Stuffed archive. Send e-mail inquiries to
- lexical@nmsu.edu. (While you are connected, I recommend downloading
- the file catalog-short from the top directory.)
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- 2. Conc can be ordered on disk from:
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- International Academic Bookstore
- 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
- Dallas, TX 75236
- U.S.A.
- phone: (214)709-2404
-
- Cost for media and shipping is $4 to North America and $6 overseas.
- (Checks *must* be drawn on a U.S. bank. They do not accept credit cards,
- but will bill by invoice.)
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- Evan Antworth | Internet: evan@sil.org
- Academic Computing Department | UUCP: ...!uunet!convex!txsil!evan
- Summer Institute of Linguistics | phone: 214/709-2418
- 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road | fax: 214/709-3387
- Dallas, TX 75236 |
-