Preordering Happiness

[tmcg]

Woot! Chicago 15 is coming out on CD-ROM.

You can search for the location of terms in the book at chicagomanualofstyle.org, but that requires you to be online while you're sitting there with your hardcover copy going "Dammit, I know it's in here somewhere...." Having the entire text on a local disk will induce euphoria equaled only by the euphoria of having (hypertext!) Web 11 on disk.

If they'll just make CD-ROM versions of the good Roget's and a fully updated Star Trek Encyclopedia, I'll be in writer/copyeditor heaven.

(Words into Type would be nice, too, although I've always found the WiT index to be more compatible with the way my mind works.)

Comments

[akaspeedo.livejournal.com]

Have you tried WordWeb at all? http://wordweb.info/

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

I haven't, and just took a look. The feature that cross-references to other resources could be really cool if you had, say, Web 11, Web 3, American Heritage, Random House, and the OED in accessible drives all at the same time and it could show results from all of them without exploding. Maybe that's even possible!

Right now the dictionary of first reference preferred by all the companies I work for is Web 11, so other resources are backups. That's one I didn't know about, though--thanks!

[akaspeedo.livejournal.com]

(If you find the disc again, may I borrow it sometime?)

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

I did, and yes!

[larryhammer]

Coo....

Though our house style is still on Chicago 14 -- my company not wanting to spend the $$ to upgrade all of us, just yet.

---L.

[remaines.livejournal.com]

When? When? CMS on CD-ROM will be such a help.

I have Web11 on a SD memory thingie for my Palm Pilot. When I don't feel like lugging the laptop to Starbucks or wherever, it's very handy.

Wish Random House Unabridged were the dictionary of choice. It is my favorite.

BTW, Rob and I were just talking about the fact that American Heritage (which is, I think, the one Rob wishes everyone used) and Web11 break syllables in different places on some words. Weird.

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

Well, supposedly it's out now, but Books-A-Million emailed me that it's on backorder, and their Website now says that it's a special order that they hope to fulfill in three to five weeks. I wait with unbated breath (because I need to breathe).

Interesting about the syllabification in Web11 and AH! That is weird.

Web11 on the Visor would be terrifically useful.