Re: Dictionary Programs?

Roberto Suarez Soto <ask4it@...> writes:

> On Aug/26/2002, Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> > What do you use to keep your lexicon orderly? Scraps of paper strewn across
> > my computer desk just isn't working well for me. :)  I currently keep some
>         I use XML files. That way, I can proccess them any way I like:
> to make a web page from them, to put them into a DB, etc.
I took up an idea proposed by Peter Clark and tried
a system based on the MDF tags (used by a program
named Shoebox). You write your dictionary in a plain
text file, with a format that looks like this:

    \lx dadam
    \ps adj
    \de round, rounded; spherical
    \xv Oinech dadamade
    \xe The earth is round

There are a lot of tags, each with a different meaning.
IMHO it's better than a database, because you can use
as many or as few tags as you like, without having to
leave "null" fields. Then my program takes this file,
sorts it alphabetically (or by whatever criterion) and
produces an HTML dictionary file, formatting each tag
as specified in the code. It's written in Python, which
is available and free for Linux and Windows.

A dictionary of Senu Yivokuchi produced this way is online:
  http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/nyh/lng/dictionary.html


--Pablo Flores
  Not Yet History -- Time prospection at
  http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/nyh/

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