Over at my eclectic-pencil blog I have a post on markup for philosophy in German.
The markup is used to try to make a dense and awkward text more readable and more approachable for someone new to that style of academic German writing.
The text in question is Husserl's 1927 article for the Encyclopedia Britannica - a text which has a connection with both Edith Stein and Martin Heidegger.
By comparing the two results for the same text input, the minimal markup can be seen to be very effective.
The markup used is the Curl web content language from curl.com
The reliable and secure Curl browser plugin is required. Results are best on Windows in most browsers and on Linux in Firefox; I have not tested these new pages with the Mac add-on.
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Showing posts with label Curl markup. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Martin Heidegger's interview in Der Spiegel: English/Deutsch
Over at phil.aule-browser.com there is now an English-German presentation of the Heidegger Der Spiegel interview.
This lamentable interview appeared only after his death: it opens as if prepared in advance.
[...]your philosophical work is somewhat overshadowed by incidents in your life that, although they didn’t last very long, were never clarified, either because you were too proud or because you did not find it expedient to comment on them.
The two alternatives that we are offered would not match the pronouncements of Carl Schmitt on why not to expect his "apology" and there is no reason to think they were apposite to characterize the attitude of Martin and Elfride Heidegger.
It is alsos stated as fact that the "incidents" did not "last very long" - leading Heidgger to offer us the mere year, 1933.
Historians have now established a rather different picture of the philospher who took himself to understand the inner greatness of the Storm Troopers, his SA, or "Sturm Abteilung".
The interview is presented as scrolling English to the left and a scrolling Google Book of the German as found in the Heidegger family edition of his writings, the GA.
The technique used in the page is to embed Curl in HTML and then to embed a browser widget in the Curl applet. In Curl 7.0 this widget is wrapping the Trident engine on Windows and Mozilla on linux, but we can hope for a WebKit wrapper in 8.0
The entire page presents two copyright items in Curl text markup and a Curl widget, so the VBox containing both widgets is read-only and printing is suppressed. Other techniques can be added to prevent screen capture or snapshot (see aule-browser.com for examples of viewing eyes-only documents on the web.)
I am working on an alternate view to "slide" the German text portal along a full text companion English portal and another with "pages" and persistent note-taking (Evernote or local Curl persistence or SQLite local or server.) This early page is not using a Curl style sheet and has not yet been paginated (indexed to the GA pages.)
The plan is to "generate" these views as Curl layouts on the server using Smalltalk Seaside 3.0 as an alternative to XML layouts. Constraint resolution for Smalltalk is available as Backtalk or a DLL can be wrapped.
This lamentable interview appeared only after his death: it opens as if prepared in advance.
[...]your philosophical work is somewhat overshadowed by incidents in your life that, although they didn’t last very long, were never clarified, either because you were too proud or because you did not find it expedient to comment on them.
The two alternatives that we are offered would not match the pronouncements of Carl Schmitt on why not to expect his "apology" and there is no reason to think they were apposite to characterize the attitude of Martin and Elfride Heidegger.
It is alsos stated as fact that the "incidents" did not "last very long" - leading Heidgger to offer us the mere year, 1933.
Historians have now established a rather different picture of the philospher who took himself to understand the inner greatness of the Storm Troopers, his SA, or "Sturm Abteilung".
The interview is presented as scrolling English to the left and a scrolling Google Book of the German as found in the Heidegger family edition of his writings, the GA.
The technique used in the page is to embed Curl in HTML and then to embed a browser widget in the Curl applet. In Curl 7.0 this widget is wrapping the Trident engine on Windows and Mozilla on linux, but we can hope for a WebKit wrapper in 8.0
The entire page presents two copyright items in Curl text markup and a Curl widget, so the VBox containing both widgets is read-only and printing is suppressed. Other techniques can be added to prevent screen capture or snapshot (see aule-browser.com for examples of viewing eyes-only documents on the web.)
I am working on an alternate view to "slide" the German text portal along a full text companion English portal and another with "pages" and persistent note-taking (Evernote or local Curl persistence or SQLite local or server.) This early page is not using a Curl style sheet and has not yet been paginated (indexed to the GA pages.)
The plan is to "generate" these views as Curl layouts on the server using Smalltalk Seaside 3.0 as an alternative to XML layouts. Constraint resolution for Smalltalk is available as Backtalk or a DLL can be wrapped.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Galileo's Starry Messenger in Curl web-content markup
Over at http://phil.aule-browser.com/ there is now a text of Galileo's Starry Messenger complete with marginal glosses.
The page requires the Curl plugin for your browser, which is available at http://www.curl.com/download/rte.
Galileo's text, also known as Sidereal Messenger or Sidereus Nuncius, recounts his construction of his telescope, his noting the surface of the moon, some nebula as themselves stars, the Milky Way as stars and the 4 great satellites of Jupiter.
I was able to find two other text versions on the internet, but both had deficiencies.
The marginal glosses had disrupted the OCR scan of the PDF images: they were restored manually using a custom Curl text procedure. Documentation on these can be found at the Curl site of Cambridge, MA. Curl Corporation, a subsdiary of Sumisho or by visiting an SCS web site.
Each marginal gloss is wrapped simply in {gloss } and placed before the text, itself wrapped in {para }.
Here is the gloss definition used at this time:
My versions of Hannah Arendt in The Human Condition on Galileo and his telescope can be found at http://phil.aule-browser.com/
Mention of a telescope is in Eugen Fink's Conversations with Husserl. For Husserl on Galileo, see his Krisis. For Heidegger on science and the instrument makers, see his Technik lecture. For excellent telescopes at fair prices, see http://www.astronomics.com/
The page requires the Curl plugin for your browser, which is available at http://www.curl.com/download/rte.
Galileo's text, also known as Sidereal Messenger or Sidereus Nuncius, recounts his construction of his telescope, his noting the surface of the moon, some nebula as themselves stars, the Milky Way as stars and the 4 great satellites of Jupiter.
I was able to find two other text versions on the internet, but both had deficiencies.
The marginal glosses had disrupted the OCR scan of the PDF images: they were restored manually using a custom Curl text procedure. Documentation on these can be found at the Curl site of Cambridge, MA. Curl Corporation, a subsdiary of Sumisho or by visiting an SCS web site.
Each marginal gloss is wrapped simply in {gloss } and placed before the text, itself wrapped in {para }.
Here is the gloss definition used at this time:
{define-text-proc public {gloss ...}:anywhich is found in the top-level curl file which includes the Galileo text as an scurl file. A reference to the top-level Curl file is embedded as an OBJECT in a regular HTM page at http://phil.aule-browser.com/messenger.htm
{return {paragraph font-size = 12pt,
font-family = "serif",
paragraph-left-indent = 8pt,
text-preserve-whitespace? = true, {italic {splice ...}}}}
}
My versions of Hannah Arendt in The Human Condition on Galileo and his telescope can be found at http://phil.aule-browser.com/
Mention of a telescope is in Eugen Fink's Conversations with Husserl. For Husserl on Galileo, see his Krisis. For Heidegger on science and the instrument makers, see his Technik lecture. For excellent telescopes at fair prices, see http://www.astronomics.com/
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Balderdash or Hyperbole? Canovan's Arendt.
Cambridge U. Press Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of Her Political Thought by Margaret Canovan opens with this gem:
While I'm trying to be fair: the buffoonery of a Blücher lecture can be traced almost word-for-word to a paragraph in Max Scheler's Man's Place in the Cosmos. Only Blücher did not see fit to tell his Bard undergrads that he was quoting Scheler - if his bombast can be termed 'quoting'. Call it 'playing the part' of the professor. So I will try to get around to posting that, as well.
Arendt and Blücher considered the Americans to be less than their intellectual equals - caveat emptor as ever. So few pronouncements are new under the sun - or any critical light.
Hannah Arendt is one of the great outsiders of twentieth-century political thought, at once strikingly original and disturbingly unorthodox.In fairness to Arendt I would like to say that much of her thesis on technique in The Human Condition, Chapter VI, need not be traced to her master and lover, Heidegger - it can be taken from Husserl's Krisis. But some insist that this Husserl material itself came from Heidegger. Some of the Husserl passages seem closer to the Arendt text, so I will get them up in Curl markup over at http://phil.aule-browser.com/ along with links to browse the Canovan quote in Google Books (she wrote the preface to the posthumous second edition of The Human Condition.)
While I'm trying to be fair: the buffoonery of a Blücher lecture can be traced almost word-for-word to a paragraph in Max Scheler's Man's Place in the Cosmos. Only Blücher did not see fit to tell his Bard undergrads that he was quoting Scheler - if his bombast can be termed 'quoting'. Call it 'playing the part' of the professor. So I will try to get around to posting that, as well.
Arendt and Blücher considered the Americans to be less than their intellectual equals - caveat emptor as ever. So few pronouncements are new under the sun - or any critical light.
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