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Benjamin Waters |
Languages |
Mastering GermanA set of exercises for mastering German. This currently covers the whole of German declension. Lists of German Declension FormsLists of data useful to linguists or others working on German. |
Computers and Text |
Rote Learning ProgramThis is a computer version of palm cards, for cramming information into your brain. Here is the program itself, which is written in awk. Unicode TablesExplore the beauty of human writing systems and test your browser’s Unicode fonts on the first 65 546 allocated places of the Unicode standard. The Dvorak Keymap3 reasons the Dvorak keymap is better than QWERTY: mechanical efficiency, cognitive efficiency, extensibility. Multilingual SpellcheckingHow to set up the optimal spell-checking system to handle many languages in a single document. Translate UTF-8 Ancient Greek to TeXand back again These are Sed scripts for translating Ancient Greek texts encoded with UTF-8 Unicode into polytonic Greek for use in LaTeX, and the reverse, respectively. |
Photo-essay |
The Purpose of NatureHow Ben discovered the true essence of skiing—in Switzerland, of course. |