A few years ago I wrote a little tool called QuickAccents. What it did was add the correct accents to a Greek word as you typed it, using the accentuation in the New Testament. Hardly anyone ever bought a copy, and it languished until I finally withdrew it a year back.
Over the weekend I had an email from one of the few, asking me if it would run on Windows 7. The answer was that it would not. But in response to pleas, I located the source and tried to port it to the current version of Visual Studio.
I wasn’t very hopeful, but the port more or less worked. Well, Microsoft to Microsoft… it ought to! But certainly earlier versions did not. So I have the new version. This I will package up, and the gentleman will be able to run it.
In those days I tended to list the date in the files. I notice, ruefully, that I wrote QuickAccents in 2002. It didn’t seem so long ago… And where did the time go?
I’ve been feeling really incredibly tired over the last couple of days, with lots of headaches and toothache in the upper jaw. I started to feel better last night, and suddenly realised that it must have been a virus! The virus gets into the sinuses, and thus the other symptoms. I mention this only in case others are afflicted, and have not realised what is happening.
Last night I started to look at the preface to Hansen’s edition of the Church History of Socrates Scholasticus. We’re so accustomed to having this in English that it was a shock to learn that no German translation had ever been made! Interestingly there is evidence that a complete Syriac version exists.
If the virus will let up, I will digest down the manuscript tradition and place it online.