Re: CHAT: Three questions from a lurker

Beorn - wulf wrote:

> Hi all list people.  I am generally a lurker, but I have to ask: am I the
> youngest conlanger on this list?  I'm 16 and have made five languages.
> Right now I'm working on one based on Welsh.  Oh, and I have another two
> questions, because somehow I didn't get the responses the first time.
> How do you decide on your vocabularies/morphemes?  And what computer
> program do you use.  I use Excel myself because of the ease of
> alphabetizing.
When I begun using computers into conlanging circa 1990, I used WordPerfect (4.2
that time).  I pretended to make a lexicon database in Lotus 123 (some release
2) but then I move it to WordPerfect (5.0 and then 5.1 at that time).  I usually
do alphabetizing manually while I'm adding new words... I don't see it as big
trubble and there are thinks I like from word processors (now a days I'm using
Word 97) over spredsheets or any other database manager: freedom.

I've tried to use Shoebox (a free program for manage lexicon files found at SIL:
http://www.sil.org for answering Eric's question) but found it quite difficoult
to implement so I'm just using it to store some NGL files Stephen DeGrace posted
on NGL list.

For work purposes I begun using a program called PC-KIMMO which uses a Field
Oriented Standard Format which are specially formated text files, and after I
developed a "cheap and dirty" program for converting from and back into .CSV
(comma separated text files) I guess I will use the combination of .CSV and FOSF
files for lexicon management.  (.CSV files can be opened in Excell, Access or
any text editor like Word which would allow me to use the advanced search and
replace features with no macro creation).

>
> Well, I'll go back to lurking.  Thanks a lot.
> David
>
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