[Lexicog] Sorting

[Wayne Leman]

Bill, what is the name of the program you are using, and do you have an
Internet address where we can get more info on it?

Wayne
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Wayne Leman
Cheyenne website: http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language

> No "standard" sort order, even with Unicode, is likely ever to
> be sufficient for lexicography and related work. Not only do we
> need to be able to do alphabetization for minority languages
> whose sort order is unique, but it is desirable
> to be able to sort in other ways for other purposes. Once equipped
> with a program that allowed me to specify completely arbitrary sort
> orders with essentially unlimited numbers of multigraphs of essentially
> unlimited length (the last time I checked, which was a long time ago,
> Shoebox limited multigraphs to four characters), I discovered uses
> for sorting that I hadn't previously thought of. For instance, I have
> generated topical indices automatically from the semantic field
> information. Sorting records by semantic field requires the use
> of "multigraphs" as long as "gathering-plants-scrapingcambium".
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
> http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/ billposer at alum.mit.edu




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