[Lexicog] TshwaneLex 1.0 -- Professional Lexicography Software Released

[David Joffe]

September 6: TshwaneDJe HLT announces the release of TshwaneLex 1.0

TshwaneLex is a professional lexicography software suite that is fully 
customisable and Unicode-based. Numerous groups and individuals around 
the world are already using TshwaneLex for a variety of languages, 
including Afrikaans, Albanian, Bai, Catalan, Chinese, Ciluba, Dutch, 
English, Estonian, French, German, Inezeno Chumash, Irish, Malay, Motu, 
Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, 
Tswana, Welsh, Zulu, and more. Companies and organisations using 
TshwaneLex include Oxford University Press, Macmillan, the Pan South 
African Language Board, Van Dale Lexicografie, and the Spanish Royal 
National Academy of Medicine. TshwaneLex has also been well-received at 
all the latest Euralex, Asialex, Afrilex and Complex conferences.

The TshwaneLex suite contains numerous tools to optimise dictionary 
compilation and to assist lexicographers and editors in producing 
quality dictionaries in a timely manner. Major features of TshwaneLex 
include:

- A focus on user-friendliness, which allows for an easy learning curve 
and lowers training time. In many cases users can be up and running 
within minutes.

- An immediate "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" article preview.

- Full Unicode support and Windows IME (Input Method Editor / "soft 
keyboard") integration.

- Direct export to RTF (Rich Text Format) for Microsoft Word or 
OpenOffice.org. Other export formats include XML and HTML (Web).

- A high degree of flexibility and customisability, thanks to the 
customisable DTD (Document Type Definition) system, based on the open, 
industry-standard XML.

- Automated multi-layered numbering of senses, homonyms and other 
element types.

- A "smart" cross-references system automatically tracks cross-
references, thus ensuring the integrity of cross-references, and 
automatically updating cross-referenced homonym or sense numbers when 
these change.

- A powerful styles system that allows multiple "editions" of a 
dictionary to be generated from the same database.

- Customisable meta-language to toggle the language used to display 
information such as part of speech labels and cross-reference types.

- Automated backup system to protect the data.

- A Compare/Merge tool that enables "offline" changes to be merged into 
the main database, including "batch merge" functionality. The 
Compare/Merge tool also allows editors to keep track of the progress of 
lexicographers.

- Side-by-Side view, Linked View, and automated lemma reversal all 
greatly assist with the production of bilingual dictionaries, and lower 
the development time thereof.

- Multimedia support ensures that images and audio recordings can be 
linked anywhere within articles.

- Fast, full-dictionary text search capability, with regular 
expressions for advanced users.

- Fully customisable sorting.

- A unique Ruler tool that ensures balanced treatment on 
multidimensional levels.


More details about these and other features can be found on the 
TshwaneLex website:

http://tshwanedje.com/tshwanelex/

For a limited time -- until the end of September -- TshwaneLex will 
continue to be available at the special pre-release prices.


The TshwaneLex Development Team.

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TshwaneDJe HLT [Human Language Technology]
http://tshwanedje.com/



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