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From: tom@tarpon.cs.fau.edu (Tom Horton)
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Subject: Re: Shakespeare and Librarian: annoying little bug
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Date: 17 Apr 91 15:17:30 GMT
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I can fill all of you in on the unusual titles in Shakespeare
on the NeXT.  (Anyone else hacking the Bard out there?)

What's on the NeXT is a version of a published edition:
*William Shakespeare:  The Complete Works*, edited by Stanley
Wells and Gary Taylor, et al.   The actual published version
departs from the usual titles in several instances, for reasons
explained in the volume (and presumably somewhere on the NeXT, too.)

All NeXT has done is made available an electronic version of a text.
Part of their license from the Oxford Univ. Press would be to faithfully
reproduce (within the limits of representing a printed book on a computer)
the original printed text.   If you disagree with editorial decisions
made in the original publication, it's not NeXT's fault.

I don't like (or remember) the titles either.  But the Librarian will
just find things in the text and return the file names they're stored
under.  Perhaps some kind of elegant "aliasing" function could be
incorporated into Digital Librarian, but I'm not sure this would be
worth the trouble.

Tom

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Dr. Thomas B. Horton
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