-
I've screwed up. How do I reset my settings?
If you have bungled up your settings and want to reset them to the way they were when you installed Diogenes, don't bother uninstalling and reinstalling the same version of the application, for that won't change anything. Your settings are kept in a completely different folder, whose location depends on your operating system:
- Mac OS X
/Users/<Your User Name>/Library/Application Support/Diogenes-Browser/
- Windows 2000 and XP
C:\Documents and Settings\<Your User Name>\Application Data\diogenes
- Windows Vista
C:\Documents and Settings\<Your User Name>\AppData\Roaming\diogenes
- GNU/Linux
~/.diogenes
You will need to delete the folder named above to reset your settings.
NB. Windows users may appear not to have an "Application Data" or "AppData" folder, but they most certainly do. It's probably just a "hidden" folder, which you cannot see. Use the settings in Windows Explorer to make it visible (Tools -> Folder Options -> View -> Show hidden files and folders).
-
Why aren't all inflected forms of a Greek or Latin lemma shown?
When you ask to do a morphological search, only those inflected forms that are actually found in the TLG or PHI database are shown. Theoretically possible forms or forms only attested outside those databases are not shown.
-
What happened to the option to change Greek encoding at the bottom of the page?
That option dates to a time when Unicode support was not widespread. You can still choose other encodings via the "Settings" page, but you really ought to move on to Unicode (TeX users see XeTeX). Removing the option from the bottom of the page made the code much simpler.
-
Why does Diogenes show so much context in some searches?
By default, Diogenes tries to show you a sentence of context, which it guesses at by looking at the punctuation. Some texts (e.g. Coptic) lack punctuation, so this doesn't work very well. In this case, go to the "Settings" page and choose to show a fixed number of lines of context.
-
What happened to the Greek-derived Coptic letters?
Starting with version 3.1 of Diogenes, it uses the new Unicode range for Coptic instead of using the equivalent Greek letters. Not many fonts support this yet, but New Athena Unicode does.
-
What's a nice font to use?
You want a Unicode font that includes polytonic Greek and as many odd scholarly characters as possible. It should have bold and italic variants. Among large commercial fonts, Lucida Grande comes with the Mac, Palatino Linotype comes with Windows, and Arial Unicode MS comes with Microsoft Office (Universal Font). Among free fonts, Gentium and the fonts of the Greek Font Society have very nice Greek, but have fewer of the odd Unicode characters.
-
How are the Perseus data generated?
The Perseus morphological parser (Morpheus) is written in C and would be inconvenient to merge into the architecture of Diogenes. Instead, Morpheus is run over all the words in the PHI and TLG databases, and a list of all parses is sorted, linked to dictionary entries and mapped in reverse (for morphological searching). The scripts that do this are available for download.