After spending last week in DH's excellent workshop on text-analysis, I bought a copy of Minitab to use on a text-analysis project related to the Colonial Despatches, which will probably result in a paper. Took a while to get an account set up on the retailer's site, demonstrate my educational status, make the purchase, then fill in and submit the Pro-D cheque req form, but I now have the software working on my Windows XP VM.