Frank Schaer wrote:
<Does anyone know where I can find a Latin spell-check program
(preferably compatible with M/soft Word and scanner programs like
Recognita)?>
Dear Frank Shaer,
I have an interest in this also.
Something that I tried a few years ago worked at the time, but got lost,
somehow.
I scanned and OCR'ed c. 700pp. of 11-13c. documents from the
_Cartulaire de Saint-Pere de Chartres_ for my own research and
to (hopefully) sell to others who might see the advantage of having
a major source in easily searchable digital form. By taking 30 or so
pages at random and massaging the text a bit I got an alphabetical
list of words which, once the duplicates (and errors!) were culled out,
was usuable as a spell checker in OmniPage (and would, I assume,
work as a custom "dictionary" [it's a *Word List*, Bill {Gates!}]
in Word, as well).
Tedious, but it worked.
Then I lost the file (!), somehow, and haven't found the time to do
it all again.
Perhaps someone on the list can save me the time.
The advantage of using a word-list made from the text you're using
itself is that orthographic variants might be somewhat familiar to it.
The disadvantage of using a word-list so constructed is that the
variants in it might not be compatable with some other
author/discipline.
But I don't think that there is any answer to this problem, medieval
orthography being the living, creative monster that it is/was.
If you didn't want to go to the trouble of scanning, etc., you could
use the same rigamarole with a latin word list from ORB or
LABYRINTH.
I'll be interested to see better ideas from this list.
(Run it by the Mediev-L list too, why don't you?)
Best from here,
Christopher
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