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Re: Dictionary Programs?

From:Pablo David Flores <pablo-flores@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 27, 2002, 19:16
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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