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Re: Onomastics and taxonomies

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Sunday, March 28, 1999, 21:51
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). > > 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.