Re: Vocab Lists? (Was: Emergency! Shoebox not working!)

Hi!

Rik Roots <rikroots@...> writes:
> Gevey used to carry its vocabulary on the web as alphabetical lists in
> html files. But I've abandoned that idea, and started developing a
> proper database using MySQL, with PerlDBI to generate the html lists
> on the fly. This should allow me to do more than just display an
> alphabetical list of words, such as searching, and grouping words
> together on a page by their root, etc.
I usually use Lisp.  It can easily be imported into C++ with a very
simple tool and, more importantly, I can afterwards decide on
computing or modifying the final lexicon entries, because data
structures and programs have the same syntax in Lisp.  E.g. in Tyl
Sjok, I implemented `phonetics modules' by this (the words are mere
sequences of numbers in the raw lexicon and the phone sequences are
then computed upon loading the lexicon).

From this lexicon I also create LaTeX and HTML sources using Lisp and
Perl.

I found this method most convenient.

**Henrik

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