Concordancers

[B.M. SHUTTLEWORTH]

> A few weeks ago I bought Micro-OCP from Oxford University Press.
>
> I think it's the best tool around for linguistic studies, morphological and
> syntactic analysis, preparation of indexes and concordances etc.
>
> Koenraad Blansaer
> Assistant Professor of Russian
> University of Louvain

I was interested to hear your experience with  OUP's Micro-OCP.  It
was certainly a package I considered buying when I was looking around
recently.  Does it let you view text in Cyrillic?  I have been
experimenting with MicroConcord, a concordancer produced by
Birmingham University (Birmingham, UK, that is).  Using a standard
KOI-8 screen and keyboard driver it's possible to do this, although
it does mess up the appearance of the screen somewhat.  However, I'm
generally delighted with the speed and general performance of this
programme for basic concordancing, although am beginning to miss the
option of producing frequency counts.

Does anyone else out there have experience using other concordancers
with Russian text?

Yours

Mark Shuttleworth
Department of Modern Slavonic Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK
rusms at leeds.ac.uk