diogenes.el

Diogenes.el is a collection of some Emacs Lisp functions that use the CLI interface of P. Heslin's Diogenes to browse and search the TLG und PHI Greek and Latin databases from within Emacs. They are quite hacky in design, but tend to do their job.

Installation

Please make sure that you have a working installation of Diogenes; due to a bug in the main repository of diogenes, at the time of this writing you can either use my fork or patch the original:

# when executing this command, make sure
# 1) to alter the path /usr/local/... to the place where your diogenes installation resides
# 2) to have write permissions to this directory (su root, ...)
patch /usr/local/diogenes/server/diogenes-cli.pl < diogenes-cli.patch

After that, diogenes-cli.pl should be working. You can test it with

/usr/local/diogenes/server/diogenes-cli.pl # adapt path, if necessary

Now copy diogenes.el into the elisp subfolder of your .emacs.d (creating it when necessary). Adapt the path if necessary

cp diogenes.el ~/.emacs.d/elisp/

Now add these three lines to your .emacs or init.el

(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/elisp"))
(setq diogenes-cli-cmd "/usr/local/diogenes/server/diogenes-cli.pl")
(require 'diogenes)

Finally, check the keybinding at the end of the diogenes.el file and alter them if they do not fit you.

Usage

• Search the corpora with M-x diogenes-search-greek or M-x diogenes-search-latin
• Tidy up the search results with M-x diogenes-tidy-up-search-results
• Browse the TLG with M-x diogenes-browse-greek and the PHI with M-x diogenes-browse-latin
• Tidy up the browser output with M-x diogenes-tidy-up-browser-output-greek and M-x diogenes-tidy-up-browser-output-latin
• You can delete hyphenations with M-x diogenes-unhyphen-greek and M-x diogenes-unhyphen
• To get line numbers in every line of the browser output, use M-x diogenes-browser-insert-line-numbers
• To get rid of the line numbers, use M-x diogens-delete-line-numbers
• To reformat the apostrophe character to be typographically correct, use diogenes-apostrophe
• To convert dates between BC/AD and olympiads, use diogenes-ol-to-ad and diogenes-ad-to-ol

Please check out also my morpheus.el for an interface with the morpheus utility of the Perseus project, it works well with the textual output of diogenes.el.