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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!