Computer Programs

Eric Johnson (johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu)
Sat, 31 Aug 1996 10:24:11 -0500 (CDT)

I have been asked (and persuaded) to allow the purchase of
site licenses for my 19 computer programs that are used by
students in CHUM 650, Computing for the Humanities:

ACTORS processes the texts of Shakespeare's plays (Oxford
Electronic Edition) and generates lists of the characters on
stage simultaneously and a listing of possible doubling of
roles;

BITZER generates an index of page numbers (or line numbers)
for all words (or selected words) in a text automatically;

BYCHAPT catalogs occurrences of specific words by chapter;

CONCORD produces a key-word-in-context concordance for all
words (or for selected words) in a text;

DIALOG20 computes the number and percentage of words found
within quotation marks for a full text and for each chapter;

FINDLIST computes the percentage of words on multiple lists
that are found in multiple texts;

IDENT compares the number and percentage of occurrence of
selected words in two texts;

INTER computes the interval between occurrences of each use
of each word in a text;

JADIALOG processes the Oxford Electronic Jane Austen SGML
texts and produces a series of files containing the dialogue
of each character;

JAFORMAT processes the Oxford Electronic Jane Austen SGML
texts and removes tags and entity references leaving only
ASCII text with paragraphs indented;

JATALK counts the number of words of dialogue for each
speaker in the Oxford Electronic Jane Austen SGML texts;

JAWORDS produces an index of page and line locations for
selected words in the Oxford Electronic Jane Austen SGML
texts;

MENDEN2 computes and graphs the lengths of words in two
texts;

REMOVE processes the Oxford Electronic Edition of
Shakespeare and removes the tags and line numbers leaving
ASCII text;

SENT computes the number and percent of sentences of each
length in a text and graphs the results;

SHAKWORD notes the location of selected words by play title,
act, scene, and line in texts of the Oxford Electronic
Edition of Shakespeare;

SL counts and graphs the length of each sentence in a text;

WORDCELL records the location of words in a text and graphs
the positions within 66 cells (or blocks) of text;

WORDS counts the number of running words in a text, counts
the number of unique word forms, and lists the number of
occurrences of each unique form; a control file allows the
user to set parameters for recognition of words.

Executable files of the programs are designed to run on a
386 or better computer with 2 MB of RAM or more that can execute
DOS programs.

Also included with the site license are the electronic texts
of eight of my articles published in _TEXT Technology_ that
describe the use of many of the programs -- both as ASCII and
HTML files.

Other than my eight articles, no other text files for
analysis are included. They may be obtained from a variety of
public-domain sources or purchased from publishers such as Oxford
University Press.

The cost of a site license for the 19 computer programs and
the 8 files of articles is $1000 plus $20 for packaging and
shipping in North America -- plus $50 for packaging and shipping
outside of North America. Prices are in U.S. dollars. The 19
programs are available only as a group: they may not be purchased
individually.

Orders should be sent to:

Strong Software
702 NE Fifth Street
Madison, SD 57042
USA

Questions about details of purchase should be addressed to
Strong Software rather than to me.

-- Eric Johnson
JohnsonE@jupiter.dsu.edu
http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone