On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:41:55 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
<grammatim@...> wrote:

[Suzanne]

>> Since I have looked at and enjoyed your book, WWS, I would very much
>> appreciate if you would share here what you have written in articles
>> rather than refering to them obliquely.

Indeed; some (maybe only a few?) of us don't have convenient access to
academic libraries, or even privileges for their use.

> I am not going to retype hundreds of pages of published articles here.

In a few decades, if all goes well, nearly all articles should become
accessible online. As well, authors will (or should have!) all their work
in their computers, saved as well to backup storage. Any need to re-key is
a last resort, and a consequence of either early stages of electronic
handling of text, or mishandling of recent electronic documents.

As to retyping, OCR saves a huge amount of keying, but for ordinary
citations, I think OCR is asking a bit much, as well. It's possible that
the only good OCR programs are quite costly; I haven't tried those from
open sources yet.
(Follow-ups to [vellum]?)

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