OHHH YEAH! I'd LOVE to have something like that! I might actually get
some of my dictionaries webified if I had a tool like that available to
me!
PLEASE do it!
Adam Walker
>From: Gary Shannon <reboot@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
>Subject: Re: Onomastics and taxonomies
>Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:47:44 -0800
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mathew Willoughby <sidonian@...>
>To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
>Date: Saturday, March 27, 1999 8:13 PM
>Subject: Re: Onomastics and taxonomies
>
>
>>Wow,
>>
>>All you guys who posted your lists amaze me!
>>
>>I just spent all day alphabetizing (and htmling)
>>my glossary. Alevain has barely 150 words!
>>It's a good thing I like a challenge.
>
>Speaking of alphabetizing glossaries I'm writing a computer program for
>editing and maintaining bi-lingual glossaries or dictionaries. (I'm a
>Windows software engineer by trade).
>
>I was wondering if anyone on this list might be interested in having
such a
>program (freeware, of course). And if so, what capabilites and
features
>would you like to see in it?
>
>I want to be able to maintain my Tazhi dictionary (about 750 words at
the
>moment) more easily. The basic idea is to have one entry in the data
base
>from which all appropriate dictionary entries are generated (in text
file or
>HTML format.) So if I had and entry like, say
>
>(flat, smooth, level)=glose[adj]{some comment on usage, etc.}
>
>It would produce three entries (alphabetically arranged, of course) in
the
>English to Tazhi dictionary and one entry in the Tazhi to English
>dictionary:
>
>flat [adj] - glose (smooth, level){some comment on usage, etc.}
>....
>level [adj] - glose (smooth, flat){some comment on usage, etc.}
>...
>...
>glose [adj] - flat, smooth, level {some comment on usage, etc.}
>
>That way I only have to make changes in one place and all related
dictionary
>entries automatically get updated.
>
>Let me know if you have any requests for features, etc.
>
>--gary.
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