(not a riddle) due to the fact that no one managed to translate the sublime work that is Pappus's Synagoge into english (i know, right?) in time for a public-domain version to exist on these interwebs, i feel a desperate urge to learn a bit about moses and generate (and possibly polish??) a semi-readable machine translation of said classic (one of newton's main inspirations for those gosh darn confusing intriguing craaazy diagrams in the principia mathematica naturalis philosophae) for my own edification.
to that end, i am wondering if anyone can offer any advice regarding making use of perseus' ancient greek texts (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/opensource/download) for training purposes. this will be first attempt at using moses, so i have no idea what to expect, but given that euclid's elements is easy to find in both greek and english, and given that i am extremely at ease with the unix command line, and something of a language geek, and know enough greek to debug things, i figure i'll take the plunge. so: 1) does this sound too ambitious? 2) has anyone been down this route? thanks for your time, Alec _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
