Typing the lexicon

* Roger Mills <romilly@...> [000724 19:23]:
> BTW, does SIL mention why it's called _SHOEBOX_?
Not on the site I think, but in the docs. In the olden, pre-computer
days, the field-workers would keep the info and data on a language in a
shoebox, or so the legend says. The format (\key) is from that time too,
quick to make such a one in the margin of a ruled sheet of paper.


t.