[B-Greek] Announcement: "Hopperizer"

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Mon Dec 8 05:39:43 EST 2008


The following announcement should be welcome to B-Greekers who are  
always seeking more convenient ways to deal with Greek text for BG  
messages as well as for other uses. We are grateful to Tom Moore and  
Louis Sorenson for developing and testing this resource and graciously  
setting it before us. The text of the announcement comes directly from  
Louis Sorenson.
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Hello all,

Christmas has come early to online students of ancient Greek!  Tom  
Moore atKataBiblon.com (a Greek/English online New Testament/Greek Old  
Testament  site) has been putting a tool together called "the  
Hopperizer" which can be found athttp://www.katabiblon.com/tools/perseus-hopperizer/ 
  .

The Hopperizer does a number of the cool things such as:

	• Link a betacode text (TLG/Perseus or B-Greek) or Greek Unicode  
text to the Perseus website's online LSJ Hopper lexicon (with or  
without converting)
	• Convert B-Greek or TLG/Perseus betacode to Greek Unicode (with or  
without linking to Perseus)
	• Convert Greek Unicode text to TLG or B-Greek betacode format (with  
or without linking to Perseus)
	• Convert TLG/Perseus betacode to B-Greek betacode and vice-versa  
(with or without linking to Perseus)
	• Optionally retain the original Greek text while converting between  
betacode and Unicode (this feature still has a couple kinks to be  
worked out under certain scenarios)

Some of the areas this can help B-Greekers sending emails.
	• Get both Greek text and betacode text for submitting Greek  
passages in emails
	• Keep betacode in emails in the correct format
	• Preview the Greek/betacode before sending in submissions

By pasting in the selections from B-Greek emails and archives into the  
Hopperizer, a person can
	• Read betacode emails in both betacode and actual Greek
	• Link the Greek and/or betacode words to Perseus' LSJ hopper lexicon
	• Convert B-Greek betacode to more-readable actual Greek
	• Add the Greek text to B-Greek emails which contain only B-Greek  
betacode

Some other uses for this tool are:
	• Paste selections from online grammars (such as Funk) and link the  
Greek words to Perseus
	• Use the tool to check parsings for Greek exercises (as long as the  
form is in Perseus' LSJ database)
	• See if Greek sentences written by students are actual Greek words  
and not misspelled or misaccented

The Hopperizer is Unicode aware, and can split out English from Greek  
text and English from CAPITALIZED B-GREEK BETACODE! It even retains  
the formatting for passages.  It will link Greek words with hyphens  
such as ἀγορ-ίζω to the correct word (even Perseus' hopper  
does not do that!).

Tom's Kata Biblon website (http://www.katabiblon.com/) does not yet  
have a direct link posted, but the utility is online and available.   
Thank Tom for the early Christmas present. Again, the link to the  
Hopperizer is http://www.katabiblon.com/tools/perseus-hopperizer/ .   
Take a look at it and feel free to give him any suggestions you have.  
Tom can be contacted at tom at katabiblon.com .

I suggest that those interested try
	• Submitting some of the emails from a B-Greek email to the  
Hopperizer
	• Browse the B-Greek Archive and submit some emails to the  
Hopperizer (http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/)
	• Copy and paste a lesson from Funk's 'A Beginning/Intermediate  
Grammar of Hellenistic Greek' into the Hopperizer           (http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/project/funk-grammar/pre-alpha/ 
)
	• Submit some text from Smyth's Grammar at CCEL.org to the Hopperizer


The B-Greek email list can be found at http://lists.ibiblio.org/b-greek/
The Perseus (Tufts University) Digital library can be found athttp://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper
The TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae - Univerisity of California -  
Irvine) Digital library can be fount at http://www.tlg.uci.edu/

Louis Sorenson
(a Hopperizer beta tester and enthusiast)
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Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)





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