Re: Dictionary formats

Generally my dictionaries have been only on paper, consuming tree after
tree. There would be the first one, the Basic Dictionary, and then
addenda. It was difficult to work with, and several of my langs died
because I misplaced all or part of the dictionary. To prevent this from
happening, I am putting the Madzhi dictionary into the computer. Online
even. It's at http://www.angelfire.com/nb/madzhi/em.html

Especially take a look at the entry for "salmon". The <ul> thing will also
be used to add information on different shades of meaning. And if a word
has a different meaning in a different case, then it has it's own entry.

----ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send
peace, but a sword."
 - Jesus Christ, in Matthew 10:34

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Joel wrote:

> 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!
> --
> http://www.frath.net/
>

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