Re: General Purpose Dictionary Generator

* On 2006-10-28 21:58:46 +0200 Gary Shannon wrote:
> http://fiziwig.com/dictionary/dictionary1.html
>
> Please feel free to make comments, suggestions and feature requests.
> Once I get the whole thing running as a mock-up web application I can
> start coding the real program.
The dictionary-*style/format* is rather non-standard. Its
use of parentheses makes it resemble neither good
paper-based dictionaries nor good web-based dictionaries.

There are two important criteria for the style/format of a dictionary
entry:
1) compactness
2) readability

In paper-form, 1) always trumps 2), but for a web-based dictionary, 2)
ought to be king.

As for a good example of readability, see the AHD:

    http://www.bartleby.com/61/88/D0208800.html

Here's OED:

    http://www.oed.com/tour/step-18-e.html#default

A Norwegian dictionary for both bokmål and nynorsk:


http://www.dokpro.uio.no/perl/ordboksoek/ordbok.cgi?OPP=ordbok&bokmaal=S%F8k+i+Bokm%E5lsordboka&ordbok=bokmaal&alfabet=n&renset=j

(This 'un is closely modelled on the paper-version)

Here's my favorite Basque dictionary:

    http://www1.euskadi.net/morris/dictionary.htm

(Not possible to link directly to a word, this is a flaw.)
Type "language" in the box next to "Search", hit "Search" to
see the format.

The county library has a most excellent dictionary of
Greenlandic, however I haven't got access to a scanner right
now and so can't show you the entries for the suffixes,
which are important for many conlangs.


t.