Kuns't unpublished notes

[sparhawk]

Hi there,

I don't know if anybody posted this before (Brad?)

Kuns't unpublished notes (http://www.humancomp.org/ftp/yijing/yi_hex.htm)

Luis

[bradford_h]

Si- I did
And downloaded them some time ago too.
Huge files, about 110 mb in all, but handy to have, even if he flunked penmanship.

[mrlizardo]

I wish that someone with a lot of money would take this material and Kunst's dissertation on the Yijing and painstakingly typeset the lot into a big fat book.

I don't think this is a commercial possibility, but it would be a vast contribution to literary studies.

Anybody know how something like this could happen?

[hilary]

Yes, so do I - wish it, I mean. There are typing services online: the first one I looked at charges from ?3.50 to ?10 per thousand words, depending on how legible it is. (Make that ?10, then.)

So all we need is someone to approach Richard K and ask very nicely, negotiate an agreement with him, pay a typist, check the typist's work with the eye of a Yi-specialist (or just devote a few years to typing it themselves, of course), and use a print-on-demand publisher like cafepress or lightningsource.

Anyone?

(Welcome to the forum, by the way http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/I_Ching_community/clipart/happy.gif )

[hilary]

OK, just revisited the notes and seen how much Chinese there is. It may be more complicated than I thought. But I'll buy the book.

[bradford_h]

Not only that, a lot of characters he uses may be too obsolete to find in Big 5, Unicode and standard font sets. I think Ed Shaughnessy has to get special font sets made for his archaeological work (even including his Mawangdui).
I think we just suck it up and continue to puzzle over his handwriting. Can't speed read this stuff anyway.

[pseudo_daoist]

> I wish that someone with a lot of money would take this material and Kunst's dissertation on the Yijing and painstakingly typeset the lot into a big fat book.

It would be fairly esy to get it published as a book, if Kunst so desired.

Getting it noticed by the "mainstream yijing community" would be a bit more difficult.

xan

jonathon