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Conc: a concordance generator for the Macintosh
Conc produces concordances of texts. A concordance consists
of a list of the words in the text with a short section of the
context that precedes and follows each word. Conc also produces an
index, consisting of a list of the distinct words in the text,
each with the number of times it occurs and a list of the places
where it occurs. Conc displays the original text, the concordance,
and the index each in its own window. Clicking on a word in any
one of the three windows causes the other two windows to display
the entries for the same word.
Conc permits the user to define the sorting order and to
limit the concordance to words that match specified patterns
(GREP expressions).
Conc will do concordances both on ordinary flat text files
and also on multiple-line interlinear texts. In the case of
interlinear texts, the concordance can be limited to selected
lines (fields). In addition to word concording, Conc can also
produce a concordance of each letter in a text or body of
phonological data. Pattern-matching facilities are also available
to letter concordances, so the user can specify search patterns
that will have the effect of retrieving, say, words containing
intervocalic obstruents.
Concordances can be both printed and exported to plain text
files. As for performance, on a Mac IIci Conc can produce a
concordance of Moby Dick (1,177KB) in about 13 minutes and
requires about 2,500KB of memory.
Conc version 1.70 is a beta test version offered as 'freeware'. If
you use it, we only ask that you send us your comments, complaints,
and wishlist. You can affect the shape of the final product!
Documentation is included on-disk in a Microsoft Word file.
Conc is available in either of two way:
1. Conc can be downloaded by anonymous FTP from the Consortium
for Lexical Research at clr.nmsu.edu [128.123.1.12]. In the directory
pub/tools/concordances/conc you will find the file conc170.hqx,
which is a binhexed, Stuffed archive. Send e-mail inquiries to
lexical@nmsu.edu. (While you are connected, I recommend downloading
the file catalog-short from the top directory.)
2. Conc can be ordered on disk from:
International Academic Bookstore
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas, TX 75236
U.S.A.
phone: (214)709-2404
Cost for media and shipping is $4 to North America and $6 overseas.
(Checks *must* be drawn on a U.S. bank. They do not accept credit cards,
but will bill by invoice.)
Evan Antworth | Internet: evan@sil.org
Academic Computing Department | UUCP: ...!uunet!convex!txsil!evan
Summer Institute of Linguistics | phone: 214/709-2418
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road | fax: 214/709-3387
Dallas, TX 75236 |