Workplace Pack

The Workplace Pack consists of three programs for Microsoft Windows to view and search the TLG and PHI CD-ROMs. These programs provide the easiest access, fastest searches and the most features for utilizing these databases under Microsoft® Windows.™ These programs are the TLG Workplace, PHI5 Workplace and the PHI6 Workplace.

When it comes to full-featured search software for the TLG and PHI CD-ROMs, nothing comes close to the value and ease of use of the Workplace Pack.

With all of the texts from the CDs, and tools you need for writing and research, the Workplace Pack provides you with exactly what you need for professional study and research. The Workplace Pack will save professors and students time and help produce professional results.

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What's New in Version 10?

The Workplace 10 programs have a number of new features to help you work more efficiently. Easily switch between windows with one key. Improved progress counter. Better navigation of the author list. One button to repeat the last search of author/work or list of works. We added a header to the search results which gives you the exact search string, interval between words as well as the author/works being searched. This is especially helpful when you save searches to help you remember exactly what the search results represents. We listened to your requests and made the program easier to use.

Improved author lists. Older versions of the TLG Workplace allowed you to make a list of authors. Version 10 lets you make a list of authors and/or a list of individual works of an author. This helps you make your searches more precise.

Link to Perseus translations. The TLG and PHI5 Workplace programs now have the ability to link to English translations in the Perseus online library.

Search sub-section of a work. This new feature allows you to specify a start and end reference division for searches when you are searching a single work of an author.

Libronix support. Logos has added a number of resources that are of interest to users of the TLG and PHI Workplace programs. Version 10 adds links to those resources. To see their Greek language tools see http://www.logos.com/products/groups/products/language-tools-greek

Regular expression searches (grep). The Workplace programs now have the ability to do full regular expression searches. Regular expression searches are extremely powerful but they can be difficult to learn. If you would like to learn more about regular expressions, check out http://www.regular-expressions.info.

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TLG & PHI CD-ROMs

Silver Mountain Software does not sell either the TLG or PHI CD-ROMs. These CD’s must be ordered directly from the TLG or the PHI.

Their addresses are:

TLG Project
University of California, Irvine
3450 Berkeley Place
Irvine, CA 92697-5550
 http://www.tlg.uci.edu

Packard Humanities Institute
300 Second St.
Los Altos, CA 94022

TLG Workplace

TLG Workplace allows you to view and search the TLG "E" CD-ROM. Several windows can be opened at the same time. These windows can be temporarily shrunk to icons.

Searches can be done inside a single collection, or through a group of collections. For these searches, the results can be easily printed or copied into a word processor's document. Sections of texts can be copied and pasted from TLG Workplace into any other Windows application. Searches are typed in Greek, and the searches ignore all accents, breathers and iota subscripts. Diacritical marks can be selectively added to the search, if necessary. AND, OR, NOT and proximity searching are all available.

If this is not enough, as a free bonus, TLG Workplace gives you Greek and Latin fonts that can be used with any Windows word processor to type and print fully accented Greek and Latin.

TLG Workplace requires the TLG "E" CD-ROM and Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000.

PHI5&7 Workplaces

The PHI Workplace is a program for Microsoft Windows which utilizes the PHI CD-ROMs #5 (Latin) & #6 (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, Classical and Christian Inscriptions).

PHI Workplace shares most of the same features as the TLG Workplace with the exception of the TLG features which rely on the canon or the word index. Searches can be made through all Papyri, Classical or Christian Inscriptions. Searches through the Papyri, Classical or Christian Inscriptions can be limited to one century. Thus, for example, only documents from the 1st Century AD documents can be searched.

PHI 5 Workplace does not support the biblical texts and other miscellaneous texts that are on some of the PHI 5 CDs. The exception is the Coptic NT and the Nag Hammadi Coptic texts. If you want access to these Coptic texts, please note that when ordering. The Coptic Workplace program is part of the PHI Workplace but since it is so infrequently desired, it is only shipped by special order.

Standard Features

  • Unicode Support! Copy/Paste Greek as Unicode text.
  • Easily type Unicode text.
  • Quick open of last used books.
  • Copy or print selections of texts.
  • Search within a book, a whole author, selected works of an author, a custom list of authors and works.
  • Search the works on the TLG CD-ROM by date.
  • Use the TLG Canon of Authors and Works to select works to be searched. Canon selection includes, date, classification, epithet, geographical location or female authors.
  • If you repeatedly search an author or certain works of an author, TLG Workplace can record this search.
  • Utilize search results in a number of ways. TLG Workplace can save a search and retrieve it back into TLG Workplace. It can copy and paste the results into a word processor or you can print the results. TLG Workplace can also write the results to a word processor file.
  • TLG Workplace supports the TLG word index. You can type in the start of the words to be found, or you can do a wild card search. Either one will produce a list of the works which contain the word fragment.

Concordances

Few tools are more important to serious study than concordances. The Workplace programs can make "key word in context" and "word list" concordances. Full authors, works of an author, or a section of a work can be concorded. The result of a concordance is a file in Rich Text Format which can be read and edited by any major word processor.