Re: Size of your dictionary

Daniel Bowman wrote:
> Also, how do you keep your dictionary organized?  I wrote an excel macro
> that allows me to enter words and also search by word, grammatical type, and
> English keyword.  I can make it available if other people want to use it,
> but it may be a while-it's not working correctly yet!
>
Sorry, I missed this part until I read Amanda's answer.  When words come
to me, they're written down on whatever I have handy, or in my PDA.  I
then regularly collect those into 3x5 inch spiral-bound notebooks
(Alurhsa is on its 4th).  Then periodically I transfer the new words
from that into a spreadsheet, formerly in Excel but now in OpenOffice.
I have a set of Perl scripts that I then run that read the spreadsheet
and populate a MySQL database with both an Alurhsa-English table and,
using keyword fields in the spreadsheet, an English-Alurhsa table (that
one ends up with about 14,000 entries because any given Alurhsa word
might list under up to 4 English words to make it possible to find it).

I then have scripts that produce a .vok file for use with my PDA's
dictinary software, a searchable file I use with grep to be able to
search for words while typing, and a file I use with a very basic
text-based quiz program I wrote.  I also dump the database so I can save
the whole thing in a variety of formats just in case, and then make sure
I have a copy of the whole directory on multiple computers both here and
offsite.

Tony Harris