Automatic Interlinears

Emaelivpeith taliesin:
> * Arthaey Angosii said on 2004-12-18 20:58:46 +0100
> > Translating that reader is surprisingly useful even for established
> > conlangs. [..] My growing corpus is under the "Readers" section of
> > this page:
> >
> > http://arthaey.mine.nu:8080/~arthaey/conlang/writing/
>
> Beautiful interlinears! How'd'ya make 'em?
Thank you! :)

I wrote a Perl script to convert the "source" (included at the bottom
of each interlinear page for the curious) into HTML code. It currently
requires a computerized dictionary because it does all the glossing,
part-of-speech lookup, etc itself. Right now the script expects the
dictionary to be in the format I store mine in, but if others are
interested in using my script, I can make the dictionary look-up
functions plugin-able. (I'd even write plugins for anyone with a
consistent dictionary format, if they can't program themselves.)

I could probably also tweak it to output empty table cells for people
who don't have a computerized lexicon but still like the layout
itself.

So, I'd be happy to tweak and then make available my script, if
there's interest. :)


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AA

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