Limitations: Two or three graphics are
not rebuilt (you could volunteer); Some light corrections are included but
no addenda or corrigenda; Eidos supplemental bibliographies are not
included.
Requirements: You'll need the Adobe
Acrobat Reader; the most recent version is ver. 3.01, but 3.0 will
do; 2.0 I believe will not work but might; I haven't tried it. Reader version
3 is
free for the download at: <http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html>.<Correction
1> For
all practical purposes you need a 17" monitor, but 256 colors is
fine. About 32M of memory would be good; the PDFs have long filenames
so
they'll only
work on Win95/98/NT.<Correction 2> If you own,
or buy, Adobe Acrobat Exchange, you can add personal, hypertext Post-It
Notes
to your copy of
EVRG/PDF that are permanent (until you delete them). A little yellow
icon appears
on the page where you put the note; click the icon to open it. You
can openand
read Notes
in Reader, but you can only create them in Exchange.<Correction 3>
How to Obtain: You
can download the entire book as one zipped file called evrgpdfs.exe from: Download
EVRG. This is an executable file: just run it to install. The size of
this zipped file is about 5.3 Meg. When you run this extractor, the default
unzip
directory is C:\EVRG. If you ever move the files later, make sure that the
subdirectory called \Index remains below \EVRG. Otherwise full-text indexing
won't work. Or
you can retrieve the individual PDF files one at a time (there are about
32 ) by clicking on the link "Download EVRG as separate PDF files" in Download
EVRG Each chapter file is about 150-250 K. If your phone line or ISP
is flaky and you can't keep a good connectionto the Net at at 28.8, I strongly
encourage
you to download and useGetRight (ver. 3.2), a wonderful shareware program
thatlets you resume interrupted downloads in midstream: <http://www.getright.com>.
What's The Least You Need: If you only
want one file, such as Middle English, for example, you need to get the TOCs
and Indexes and Help files also; those are zipped into a file called stuff.zip
that's about 400 K. If you only take separate files, the full-text indexing
will not work :-( .
What Do You Do First after download? Once Acrobat
Reader is installed, READ the HELP file: _Help.pdf. You need to get
comfortable with Thumbnails and Zoom first; then you can fly around in
the text. The main
file for the book is _evrg.pdf. All the EVRG/PDF files open up in Continuous
Facing Pages View, which shows you, normally, parts of 2-4 pages. Zoom
in with the Zoom toolor reset the View to 100% to see the text full size.
Buttons at
tops of pages and elsewhere are always hot. The extra Quick Jump buttons
at the top of the Indexes are especially cool. How Do You Repay Me? You
send me
addenda or corrigenda or lists of other or newer citations in Word
.doc file format; any version of Word is fine. You tell other people about
this hyperbook
and you pass it around.Read the Usage doc (button on Title Page)
if you want to cite or quote from EVRG/PDF.
T. V. F. Brogan
Christmas 1998
Corrections
<1> Acrobat Reader is now at version 5.1. All
of the EVRG PDF files are compatible with later versions of Acrobat Reader.
<2> The PDF files are now Mac compatible.
<3> Adobe no longer manufactures Acrobat Exchange. The same capabilities
described are now available with Acrobat.
