> > From: Remi Villatel [mailto:maxilys@TELE2.FR]
> > For those who already have a somewhat big lexicon, how do you
> > manage it?
>
> > From: Caleb [mailto:cph9fa@ADMIRAL.UMSL.EDU]
>
> > Spreadsheets are very nice. They have nice layout and
> > formating features, as well as powerful searching, sorting,
> > and filtering features. But let's face it, the data in them
> > isn't very open if you want to write your own tools for
>
> The tools are there, at least in Excel. I've not worked with Quattro or
> Lotus in so long, I wouldn't know what features they have. :)
>
> > manipulating it. And they may or may not be cross-platform
> > compatible (or even cross software compatible -- Excel
> > doesn't like my Corel Quatro Pro files eg.)
>
> Conversion is often a problem. Generally, it's a version juggling act...its
> not that Excel doesn't like Quattro files, it depends on the version of
> Excel, the version of Quattro, and what Quattro features you used...:)
>
> On the cross-platform note, I'm assuming my files are readable in
> OpenOffice. I assume though, that the VBA macros I use I'd have to recreate
> on the OpenOffice platform? I've never investigated that.
>
> > So the route I've taken is to place all my words into a
> > simple text file. I haven't decided for sure what to use for
> Bleah. :). But extremely portable, as you say. Nearly everything attempts to
> parse those kinds of files. :)
>
> > best part is that it shouldn't be too difficult to write a
> > simple program/script in one of C/C++/Python/Perl to output
> > my own HTML file -- or any other format for that matter.
>
> I'm doing this with my excel data. I wrote a VBA script that spits out valid
> HTML instead of the garbage that Excel produces on its own. :). I also have
> a script that generates a dictionary-style msword document of the same
> material. The same script actually generates three sections. A
> Taraitola-to-English "dictionary". A cross-index section that simply points
> you to the Taraitola entry you should read, and a "Important People"
> section. :)
>
> Interestingly, the script that generates the dictionary-style document
> became painfully slow after upgrading to
> XP/2003. :(
>
> > From: Rik Roots [mailto:rik@kalieda.org]
> > I use a database (MySQL), which I access through a web browser:
> >
> >
http://www.kalieda.org/gevey/lexicon.html
>
> I'm impressed. I've experimented in that direction, but I've not really
> gotten to a viable solution yet. I also have concerns about losing the ease
> of manipulation I have in Excel. :). I've considered building the tables in
> excel as separate worksheets, for ease of manipulation. :)
>
> Iain
>