Re: Dictionary Programs?

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 06:33:54PM -0700, Padraic Brown wrote:
[snip]
> > I currently keep some
> > of my vocabulary in one big Word file, which I
>
> You poor person. I wouldn't trust even opening M$
> Word.
I wouldn't trust M$ Windows on my hardware... but that's offtopic. ;-)

[snip]
> One of these days, I suppose I'll have to try a
> dictionary programme. The data would have to be either
> exportable to a real word processor or else the
> programme would have to incorporate wp capabilities to
> print out properly. I.e., so it _looks_ like a
> dictionary!
[snip]

Shameless self-promotion:
        http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/conlang/lexicon.pdf
        http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/conlang/lexicon.ps

OK, so I cheated. The whole thing *is* written in LaTeX already. But I've
taken Leslie Lamport's time-worthy advice of structuring the document with
logical markups rather than visual markups, with the result that I now
also have a tool, written in C, that can parse this lexicon, load it into
a simple data structure, and perform simple operations like checking for
correct word order, collecting statistics, verifying cross-references,
etc.. I hope to soon expand this tool to generate a reverse-lexicon
(English-to-Ebisedian).


T

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