The
Scholar’s Toolbox II: Concordances <beta release 0.9>
ACIM
Reference and Text Analysis Tools
©2007-2008
Miracles Pathway Fellowship
Full-Featured
Concordances Menu
The full-featured Concordance require the installation
of R.J.C. Watt’s Concordance Software
(download link below)
While the HTML
Concordances are powerful and simple tools for basic word searches, their
features and flexibility are necessarily limited by the limitations of the web
browser used to search and display them.
There are additional universes of power and
flexibility available with the Full Concordance.
A screenshot can only
give you an inkling of what it’s like to use the Full Concordance. In this shot, we’ve looked up and displayed
all instances of the word “world” and clicked on one, which is then highlighted
in the full text display window.
If we double-click on
any word in the full text, we jump to that word’s Concordance listing.
We can only show you one
of an almost infinite number of possible ways of displaying the results. Contexts can be made larger or smaller, or
organized by “sense units” or punctuation marks. We can restrict the display to specific words
or word families. We can display them by
proximity to other words, by frequency, or by many other criteria.
The power and
flexibility of this tool for serious textual analysis is enormous and light
years beyond what the simple HTML Concordances can offer through a web browser.
We include the databases
for the HLC and Urtext Concordances, but we can’t provide the “Concordance
Software” needed for the use of these databases. That has to be obtained from R.J.C.
Watt. A free 30 day trial version is
available. By all means try it
out!
Among the many things
you can do is generate printouts for any number of words you may care to
select. The printouts can be in text or
HTML or powerfully formatted printable files such as shown below.
Click Here to see the full PDF file of this printout.
The context chosen for
this sample is five words before and after the search word. Many other context and display options are
available. On the right we see the
references, both the volume, chapter, section and
paragraph reference and in addition, the original manuscript page number
reference. These are provided for
citation, lookup, and verification purposes.
We do not own or publish
the software needed to generate and display the Concordance data in this way, it must be obtained from R.J.C. Watt. We did however produce the formatted, tagged
text files which that software is shown using here.
Finally, if you are not
persuaded of the value of this item, read the manual
and tour Watt’s website!