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Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

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Re: Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

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Post by gaigalas »

Clicking out to close a dictionary popup only works if you click empty space within the layout center. This is annoying. On a wide monitor, most empty space is on the sides (where clicking doesn't close).

It seems some books are missing chapter markings. Revelation, for instance. The verses are numbered, and you can notice when chapters change, but one can be lost when searching for a specific chapter.

Dictionary entries are cool, but I would want the in context meaning at least highlighted, so I don't have to read the full entry and do that myself.

Overall, nice idea but it seems like a very barebones implementation that needs a tremendous amount of polishing to be useful.

Re: Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

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Post by thaumasiotes »

flats wrote: post #14
soiltype wrote: post #2

Does this have some use case that the Perseus Digital Library doesn't already serve?

I was wondering the same thing —Perseus has been around since _1987_ & seems to have more features? I guess this is a bit more attractively laid out…

Note that Perseus considers itself end-of-life; there is an analogous project that's supposed to have succeeded it, but I don't remember what project that is.

Re: Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

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Post by smithkl42 »

Love this.

The way the Greek is displayed isn't very helpful, though. Specifically, any vowel with a grave accent displays the accent as a separate letter, which makes it very distracting to read. I don't think it's a problem with the encoding, as I can copy the inline text and it displays just fine - though with some weird spaces before commas or periods:

ΕΝ ΑΡΧΗ ἦν ὁ λόγος , καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν , καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος .

Re: Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

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Post by tmshapland »

I'm always surprised to see that a large enough portion of the HN community are interested in classics that posts like this make it to the front page. Who are you all? What are you doing here?

My undergrad was in classics and viticulture, then did grad school in atmospheric science, which led me to tech and hackernews.

How did you get here?

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