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From: dsf@allegra.UUCP (David Fox)
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Subject: Translating and indexing Bamana
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Date: Wed, 6-May-87 15:17:37 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  6 15:17:37 1987
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A friend of mine is writing a book, and the research involves the
following.  She is transcribing a large number of tape recordings of
interviews conducted over the past 15 years, in the African language
Bamana.  Then she is translating the interviews into English, so that 
a line of Bamana is followed by a line of English.

So far this can be accomplished with a wordprocessor, although the
accents necessary to transcribe Bamana may be a problem.  Now comes
the hard part.

She wants to build a subject index as she goes along, so that later
when she wants to find, for example, all the references to Women
Sculptors, she can do a query and get a list of line numbers and
interview references.  It should be possible to merge these indexes.

Can anyone give a realistic personal hardware and software setup
which would make this as pleasant as possible?  Is there software
designed to do this?

Please reply by mail, thanks in advance,

David Fox
allegra!dsf
201-582-5460