Re: Typing the lexicon (was: [SHOEBOX] "Morphophonemic form gives cyclical pa...

At 19:39 23.7.2000 -0400, Joe Mondello wrote:

>Try using a word processor with a table function and a "sort" function.  I
>use Lotus Wordpro to put my lexicon into a chart which I can sort by either
>the English column or the rodnús column, which cuts the word of writing a
>bidirectional lexicon in half
I made an extensive Tibetan-Sanskrit-English-Swedish-German wordlist in a
spreadsheet program (actually the spreadsheet module of ClarisWorks for the
Mac).  It had the advantage of being able to search and sort by any of the
five(!) languages.  Later I also exported the lexicon into the CW database
module, and thence into FileMaker (their format actually being one and the
same.)  I then used formulas to produce a TeX-tagged version of the
database for nice printout.

(In case anyone wonders why it was a pentagloss: I used two different
Tib-Eng dictionaries, one Skt-Ger and again two Skt-Eng ones.  It was only
the Swedish glosses (supplied by myself) that were actually
comprehensive.  Still it was useful to be able to look for words that had
been similarly translated into any of Eng/Ger.)



/BP 8^)>
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