Re: Dictionary formats

WELL...  I don't have Linux, so this might not be helpful, but to any
Windows people out there...  I Just started converting all of my
Wordlist/lexicon lists to MS Access format.  I have six Columns,
arranged much like this


ID      Nekilot English Irreg   Type    Notes
8       monto           live, dwell     No      v       dative means
live in(colloq, to live in a house


I often find myself putting extensive notes into the notes category.

To keep the database up to date, what I do is I write down all the words
I invent, or derive on paper.  And say, at the end of the week, or
month, I add them all, and print out the new listing.  Access makes this
particularly easy.

        -Joel


-----Original Message-----
From: Muke Tever [mailto:alrivera@ALUMNI.SOUTHERN.EDU]
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: Dictionary formats


From: "Peter Clark" <pc451@...>
>         If I may hijack this thread (sorry), I would like to make a
> general
appeal
> to all the programmers on this list: please, someone, anyone, write a
> dictionary-making program. It can even be text-based (heck, I run
> Linux, the command line does not frighten the likes of me), just so
> long as it allows for multiple semantic ranges that works both ways
> and automatically handles word entry and sorting. Or tell me where I
> can find such a program. Please! I'm can't imagine how I'm going to
> handle a dictionary once I get over a couple hundred words.
Well I use the Linguist's Shoebox when I can, but its inability to
handle Unicode frustrates.

Lately I've taken to just writing everything up in HTML.

    *Muke!
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