Brent Landau Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Hello, Apologies if this information is easy to find elsewhere (and if it is, I'll delete this post): I'm working with a fragmentary papyrus, and am trying to see if a given sequence of letters corresponds to any word or words in the Greek NT (or other corpora). For example, on one line, I've got the sequence αρτη, but that's it. If I type that into the search box, a window pops up asking me to enter the lexical form, which doesn't help since I don't have a complete word. So, I'd like to do a search that would find this string of letters both in a single word (for example, χαρτης) and in two successive words (like γαρ την). Is that possible? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Thigpen Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 (edited) I'm sure others will contribute more here, but at least initially, I believe you can search *?αρτη?* which would show you this sequence within a word. I'm not sure about searching the sequence across word boundaries. Hope that helps! Mike Edited August 1, 2014 by Mike Thigpen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Jenney Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Mike was close, Brent, try this search string: *αρτη* The asterisk (*) represents any number of characters (0-1000). The question mark (?) means a single character, one and only one. I don't know of any automatic way to get Accordance to ignore spaces between words, even though many Greek MSS do not include them. I think you may have to do that part of your search manually: *a <FOLLOWED BY> ρτη* then search for *aρ <FOLLOWED BY> τη* then *aρτ <FOLLOWED BY> η* Still, that's easier than any other method I know of! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 (edited) -- Edited May 12, 2015 by ------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Jenney Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 (edited) Sounds even better. Thanks, James Edited August 1, 2014 by Timothy Jenney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brent Landau Posted August 1, 2014 Author Share Posted August 1, 2014 Perfect, thanks, James! That gets me exactly what I want. Thanks to everyone else who chimed in as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brent Landau Posted August 1, 2014 Author Share Posted August 1, 2014 By the way, what I'm working on is P. Oxy. 210, which may or may not be an apocryphal gospel, but is very fragmentary. Thus, finding sets of letters from two words right next to each other is hugely helpful for potential reconstruction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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