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Screencast 1: Install/Use Andromeda

Jan 11

Posted by Harry Schmidt in Screencast | No Comments

I’ve just produced a screencast that shows how to install and use Andromeda.

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Snow Leopard issues

Jan 8

Posted by Harry Schmidt in Bugs, Instructions | 3 Comments

There are some known bugs in Andromeda PR1 running under Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard:

  • On 64-bit machines, opening a Latin text in a browser window may cause Andromeda to crash. To fix this for now, go to the Finder, pull up the Info window for Andromeda (command-I), and check the box marked “open in 32-bit mode.”
  • Dragging texts to a corpus in the sidebar may not work
  • Some art is missing from the Setup window

These bugs do not affect users running 10.5 Leopard.

There is one bug that affects users on both 10.5 and 10.6:

  • Greek text entry in the Lemma search mode may produce strange results for words with initial vowels

A fix is in the works, stay tuned.

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PHI 5.3 available to the public

Jan 6

Posted by Harry Schmidt in Instructions, News | No Comments

I’ve just learned that any individual or educational institution seeking a copy of the PHI 5.3 Latin CD-ROM for noncommercial purposes can obtain one at no charge from the Packard Humanities Institute. Follow the instructions provided at this website:
http://www.inrebus.com/index.php?entry=entry081104-201701

And you can start using Andromeda for Latin text! Kudos to the Packard Humanities Institute for their generosity and encouragement of free academic inquiry.

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