Re: General Purpose Dictionary Generator

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:00:07 -0700, "Gary Shannon" <fiziwig@...>
said:
> I've written a couple of dictionary generator programs for a few of my
> earlier
> conlangs, and one for Larry Sulky's Elomi. The problem is every language
> requires something a little different in the way of formatting a
> dictionary,
> and everyone who wants to create a bilingual dictionary has a different
> idea of
> how they would like to format their dictionary. What I have in mind to
> build is
> a dictionary generator that is completely customizable and configurable
> to
> handle any type of language and any kind of dictionary layout and
> formatting.
I am definitely interested in this!

> Before I start writing the code, however, I'd like to hear what people
> would
> like to have in the way of features and capabilities.
>
> The generator program would be written in JAVA so it will run on any
> platform
> under Windows, Linux, MAC, etc.
Yay, something for Mac finally!

I anxiously await further development, and am ready to test it any time.