Manzoni and the Microcomputer: I Promessi Sposi: Chapter IX
Luciano F. Farina · Quaderni d italianistica · 1986
Since one can hardly fail to notice the flurry of intellectual activity that currently surrounds the understanding of computer applications, this article addresses three interrelated areas of interest to Italianists in particular: 1. the purpose and features of LDMS as a research tool; 2. the actual process of text management including its input, stream filing techniques, and coding hierarchy (in con- junction with this, observations will be offered on the system's re- liability, underlying scholarly criteria and morphic table creation); and finally, 3. the ust of resulting information and a brief illustra- tion of each compiled major reference work.Part two stresses also the concept of programming modification as necessitated by Manzoni's prose habits; the constitution of spe- cific sets of morphic tables versus a metatable or supertable; the degree of obtained coding discrimination with and without author intervention; and, the need for more exhaustive documentation of the "real" rather than the "formal" language actually used by an author in a certain work at a certain time period.The Word- Processing (WP) module (TXTED) and Data Base (DB) compilation are not directly discussed.Also, for space reasons Referencing and Information Retrieval are barely treated to allow greater illus- tration of analytical tasks and a summary interpretation of the lin- guistic data contained in ch.IX of I Promessi Sposi.This practical