English
24 August 2009
I have published all these documents, and unless otherwise indicated on the copyright page, they may be reproduced freely. Project publications are included here as well. As I am not always working on them, if you would like the completion of any publication expedited, please contact me. For a list of all available and upcoming publications, see F-0 directly below.
Folios
Folios are numbered with the letter F; each of these is the size of a sheet of U.S. letter paper (8½″ × 11″).
Catalogue of Walter Publications
F-0 ❦ September 2009
The publications are given letters according to page size and identified uniquely by number. Note that sometimes numbers are missing (for example, there is no S-1). This occurs when documents are discontinued; it is desirable not to renumber the publications. The version of each document is given by the month and year of the publication of the revision. Set with OpenOffice in Minion.
List of Anglo-Saxon Dollars
F-1 ❦ April 2008
This document describes the point system used in Mr Walter’s course in English History. Set with OpenOffice in Times Roman.
Test on symbols, punctuation and diacritics
F-2 ❦ June 2008
This was written as a trivia quiz. It has been revised to make recourse to a dictionary less helpful to answering the questions. Set with OpenOffice in Lucida Sans Unicode.
Tschaikomero cheat sheet
F-3 ❦ June 2008
Tschaikomero is a code meant to look like Chinese writing. It is quite fast to write when learnt properly. Having gone through extensive revisions in its first year or so of existence, it eventually became somewhat standardized. Of course, only its creator ever learnt it in its entirety, so no perfectly complete and fixed standard was ever developed. Contact me if you would like the password to open the document. Set with OpenOffice in KaiTi and Vusillus.
HTML cheat sheet
F-5 ❦ June 2008
This document provides easy to some of the most common HTML tags in four pages. Set with OpenOffice in Palatino and Courier.
Functions of the Greek oblique cases
F-6 ❦ August 2008
“What does the Greek genitive case indicate?” This page gives the main uses of the accusative, genitive and dative cases in Classical Greek and examples of each. Gleason and Atherton’s First Greek Book was used as the source for this document. Set with OpenOffice in Times Roman.
Greek vocabulary words from the Book of Acts
F-7 ❦ Not completed
This document lists potentially unfamiliar Greek words in the Acts of the Apostles and their English meanings, as well as the forms and verse numbers in which they occur. Occasionally an irregular form is also listed. Words are sometimes repeated several chapters later.
Quartos
Quartos are numbered with the letter Q; each of these is the size of letter paper folded in half (5½″ × 8½″).
The Westminster Shorter Catechism
Q-1 ❦ January 2009
The Westminster Assembly produced this work, along with the Confession of Faith and the Longer Catechism, in 1647. The wording of this edition is unchanged, but punctuation and spelling is often revised. The biblical proof references are those prepared by a special committee of the General Assembly of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in 1978. Set with OpenOffice in Perpetua.
Dictionary of the words of Anna Rose Walter
Q-3 ❦ June 2009
The full title is Dictionary of the words of Anna Rose Walter before the age of two years and a description of their various meanings and pronunciations as well as a limited range of her words when slightly older, by Micah John Walter, Anno Domini MMVII. It is meant to be simultaneously accurate and humorous. (Beginning with the May 2008 edition the work has been thoroughly revised and reorganized.) Set with OpenOffice in Cambria.
Preface to the King James Version
Q-5a ❦ September 2008
Originally titled The Translators to the Reader, the original preface to this well-known version of the Bible is little read today, partly because of its absence in most printed copies of the KJV today due to its size. This edition removes the many marginal references in the original; a separate edition including them is listed below. Set with OpenOffice in Constantia.
Preface to the King James Version
Q-5b ❦ April 2009
This is a completely re-set edition of the preface. Several of the differences are of some weight: the Greek is left untransliterated; all the marginal references are restored as endnotes; the glossary is omitted; and three clauses inadvertently omitted in the first edition are restored (see my blog post for more information). The less scholarly reader may choose the first edition because of its greater simplicity; I believe, however, that this edition is better. Set with LaTeX in 10-point URW Garamond.
Cicero’s speech on behalf of Archias
Q-6 ❦ Not completed
This is one of Marus Tullius Cicero’s most famous speeches, second to his philippics against Catiline. Most of the speech is a sort of panegyric on literature; the case he was defending Aulus Licinius Archias against was a weak one.
Poems by the Vice & Virtue class of 2009
Q-7 ❦ February 2009
These verses were written by the students of Mr. William Walter’s class for elementary school students in 2009. The students were instructed to retell an instructive story in five four-line stanzas as an exercise in rhyme and metre. Set with LaTeX in URW Garamond.
How to be a man; How to be a lady
Q-8 ❦ September 2009
This edition comprises two works by the New England clergyman and writer Harvey Newcomb, written for boys and girls, respectively. These two works were published simultaneously, and because the majority of the text in the two works is identical, they are here brought together into one volume. Set with XeLaTeX in 11-point Minion. Available as a soft-cover or hard-cover volume, or as an ebook.
Sextodecimos
Sextodecimos are numbered with the letter S; each of these is one-eighth the size of a sheet of letter paper (2¾″ × 4¼″). Booklets may be produced by cutting the sheet into quarters and folding each fourth. These may then be assembled and bound with staples.
A guide to Mamdi
Mamdi is a spoken code for English—sort of like Pig Latin but on a more advanced level. Mamdi has changed a lot since it began. Its history is marked by three publications: the original cheat sheet, The New Mamdi, and A Guide to Mamdi. This little booklet is somewhat defective; for example, it does not treat the English letters g and q properly, does not indicate the alphabetical order of clicks, and does not indicate hardening of fricatives to indicate English consonant clusters (e.g. sináki for sink). However, I do not plan to revise it, for as Mamdi is above Pig Latin, so is Esperanto above Mamdi, and I plan to speak Esperanto fluently in the near future. Set with OpenOffice in Cambria.
An alternate orthography edition (S-2b) is also available, which replaces certain special characters with digraphs.