What exactly do you want to do with the package? Your needs will determine
the software best for you.
The only one I know well enough to comment is Gramcord. I have been able to
do very sophisticated searches, and they run *fast* on Windows. For
instance, when Carl Conrad pointed out that genitive participles often
signal absolute genitives, and that the participle usually comes before the
corresponding noun or pronoun, I was able to do a search for genitive
participles followed by a genitive noun or pronoun which agrees with the
participle in case, gender, and number, then do a second search which had
the participle second and the noun or pronoun first. On my 486, the search
took about 6 seconds. I don't believe that any of the other packages can do
this kind of sophisticated search.
On the Mac, I'm completely blown away by Accordance.
Jonathan
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