Re: Onomastics and taxonomies
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 28, 1999, 21:51 |
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On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Gary Shannon wrote:
>
> 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).
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> 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 wonder whether you have looked at the SIL Shoebox program? I am not
too enamoured of the Summer Institute of Linguistics myself, but the
later versions of Shoebox are _very_ good. Of course, it does a whole
lot more than just enabling you to maintain a lexicon - it might
even be overkill. It has just one fault - it isn't available in a
Unix version...
Just imagine - a Unix version of Shoebox, based on a real database like
PostGresSQL - it could have all sorts of front-ends, from web to character
to X based. As soon as I've finished my current pet-project, I'm going
to try for it.