Online Helpsheets

For help with individual databases, such as the English Poetry Database, see their individual sections in the online library.

| etext search helpsheets | xml helpsheets | sgml helpsheets | html helpsheets |
| scanning helpsheets | software helpsheets | cd-rom helpsheets |

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Etext Search Helpsheets

• Searching Web-Accessible Etext Center Collections
• Searching ebooks from the University of Virginia's Etext Center

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XML

• A Brief Introduction to XML
• The Electronic Text Center Introduction to TEI and Guide to Document Preparation.
• The full P4 TEI Guidelines
• Forms-Assisted Header Creation

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SGML

• About SGML
• The Electronic Text Center Introduction to TEI and Guide to Document Preparation.
• The full P4 TEI Guidelines
• Forms-Assisted Header Creation

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HTML

• HTML: A Simple Introduction
• HTML I: Basic HTML
• HTML IIa: Tables and Frames
• HTML IIb: Image Maps

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Scanning

• Text Scanning (Optical Character Recognition): A Basic Helpsheet
  • OmniPage Pro: A Basic Helpsheet
  • ABBYY FineReader: A Basic Helpsheet
  • Text Scanning: Some Examples
• Adobe Acrobat
• Image Scanning: A Basic Helpsheet
  • Photoshop
• Archival Digital Image Creation

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Software

PC Software ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Adobe Acrobat OmniPage Pro 12.0 Photoshop Mac Software Collate2 Photoshop

UNIX Resources Basic UNIX Tools JOVE Text Editor Recording and Saving macros in JOVE XV3 Image Tool Using Regular Expressions Text Tools Basic Text Analysis Software Basic Text Searching Software Basic Text Collation Software

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CD-ROM

PC CD-ROMs Admyte The African American Newspaper Archives American Heritage Talking Dictionary Thomæ Aquinatis Omnia Opera cum hypertextibus Bar-Ilan's Judaic Library: Responsa project Buddhist Scriptures on CD-ROM CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts The Civil War Newspaper Archives ClipArt Library The Dead Sea Scrolls: Electronic Reference Library Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed Epigraph The Essential Frankenstein The Haldeman Diaries ICAME corpora Icelandic Sagas Johnson's Dictionary Kant: WordCruncher Library of the Future Master Christian Library Monumenta Germaniae Historica Robert Musil: WordCruncher Robert Musil: PEP National Portrait Gallery Nietzsche Werke PHI #5 and #6 The Soncino Talmud The Story of Civilization TACT: Text Analysis Computing Tools The Trinity Apocalypse "Trouble Is My Business": the Raymond Chandler library Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five Walt Whitman (Major Authors on CD-ROM) The Works of John Ruskin World Shakespeare Bibliography

Other PC texts Bible Windows The Dickens Web Alex Haley: The Autobiography Of Malcolm X The Henkind Talmud Text Databank Aldous Huxley: Brave New World including Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death Hypermikdash H. P. Karr's Lexicon Deutschen Krimi-Autoren The SGML Tagger John Steinbeck: Of Mice And Men and the following selected stories: Cannery Row, The Red Pony, and The Pearl Storyspace Tennyson: In Memoriam Web Mac CD-ROMs American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century CD-ROM Stephen Jay Gould On Evolution Arthur Miller's The Crucible Marvin Minsky: The Society of Mind Donald A. Norman: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine Perseus II Who Built America? Writing Space: the computer, hypertext, & the history of writing Other Mac texts Abbreviationes The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, using Pandora