What it is: The commentaries stored in this directory tree have been scanned into ASCII form, edited by hand and converted into TeX format---from documents FREE OF COPYRIGHT. Unlike the texts, the commentaries are *exclusively* very old works whose copyright has run out. Contributing: Please, PLEASE contribute to this library. Find a commentary whose copyright has run out (copyrighted more than 75 years ago if by a company---if the rights were held by a person, there's a bit more work to be done to find out if the copyright has expired or not), scan it in, and send it to me (perseant@u.washington.edu) by e-mail. The more people contribute, the larger a library this can be. TeX: TeX is a good (and free!) typesetter; but if you don't have the program, having the files in that format will not help you. Therefore, in the Utils directory is a program "tex2asc", a rudimentary TeX-to-ASCII converter. It was written solely for the purpose of converting these particular commentaries into ASCII form, so it probably won't work if you try to use it on any more complicated TeX document. However, you will have to compile it: machine% cc tex2asc.c -o tex2asc before you can use it: machine% tex2asc < auc1.tex > auc1.txt machine% tex2asc -w 50 < aeneid1.tex > aeneid1.txt Although the example aboves assumes Unix, a similar compilation process will yield an executable under VMS or MS-DOS. I will soon be able to provide executables for MS-DOS and MacOS, for those who do not have C compilers. If you do plan to use TeX to format the commentaries, make sure that you have the file "ks_macros.tex", also stored in the Utils directory. This file contains macros needed by some of the commentaries. ---- Present collection: filename dir Type Description =============================================================== Coming soon: filename dir Type Description =============================================================== apocnote.tex.Z seneca B Ball's commentary on Seneca's Apocolocyntosis.