[FOM] Good "gnus" for Russell scholars

[Thomas Forster]

Well, the idea is that it will be seaerchable files: .pdf rather than 
.jpg.  But it's still not a done deal!

On Mon, 1 May 2006, Robert Smith 
wrote:

> This is great news.
> 
> Like most people, I have never read it, but I have read the short paperback
> of the first portion a few times.  Will the PDF be actual text or a scan of
> the original pages?
> 
> I have always wanted a copy but will still want the bound 2nd edition I
> think.  As you say, it is too expensive.
> 
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> Bob Smith
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> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:51:46 +0100 (BST)
> From: Thomas Forster <T.Forster at dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
> Subject: [FOM] Good gnus for Russell Scholars
> To: Randall Holmes <holmes at diamond.boisestate.edu>,
> 	rastley at cambridge.org,	fom at cs.nyu.edu
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> I have for some time been trying to persuade Cambridge University Press to
> issue Russell-and-Whitehead Principia Mathematica on a CD in a suitable
> searchable format of some kind (not just a lot of jpg files!)  I had lunch
> with Roger Astley the other day and had - as usual - armed myself with
> further evidence that this would be a Good Thing, only to discover that i
> had already convinced him and the matter was in hand!  It seems that the
> plan is to issue it in pdf.  God knows how they will deal with all those
> funny characters but they seem to think they can do it.  Publication date
> not yet announced and i'm not allowed to include one in the authorised
> rumours lest this tempt fate.
> 
> Now will be able to actually do some serious research on this document -
> and will be able to afford to buy it!  (It's always annoyed me that the
> price of second-hand copies has been kept artificially high by innumerate
> bibliophiles.)
> 
> I think this may also be a straw in the wind that CUP are going to issue
> other things on their list in the same format - other things that scholars
> might want to mine.  There are people who distribute electronic copies
> of works that are out of copyright (i have txt files of the Alice books
> from this source) but this looks like a welcome new development.
> 
> If you think this is a Good Thing then email rastley at cambridge.org to tell
> him he's a hero.
> 
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