Re: Making dictionaries with Shoebox and Perl

Have you thought of making an online program of it, or a downloadable program? Just
for those of us who do not know Perl or RTF. (I only know HTML, JavaScript, and
some PHP.)

"J. K. Hoffman" <ryumaou@...> wrote:> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 01:23:33 -0500
> From: John Cowan
> Subject: Making dictionaries with Shoebox and Perl
>
> Seen on another mailing list:
>
> There's an interesting new article by Sean Burke, a well-known Perl
> programmer:
>
> When you woke up this morning, the last thing you are likely to
> have thought is "If only I had a dictionary!" But there are
> thousands of languages on Earth that many people want to learn,
> but they can't, because there are little or no materials to start
> with [...]
>
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/03/25/dictionaries.html
>
I don't know from Shoebox, but PERL I do okay with, so I went and did up
this script. After installing the CPAN modules I needed, and making the
data file by hand from the description in the article, I ran it. It
makes a fairly nice dictionary! I went in and tweaked some size
settings to make it a little nicer and I can see how I'd make changes so
it would use variables and be more "universal", but it's a great script.
I know next to nothing about RTF, but this output really nice RTF
code. In fact, later this month, er next month, I hope to tweak this
into a less specific format. If I manage to find the time, I'll post it!

Thanks,
Jim
--
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food
and clothes.
- Desiderius Erasmus


Aaron Morse
www.diarenye.net
Man sad si i roch ah i rochon?

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