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hi to all <img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/01.gif" alt=":)" height="18" width="18"><br><br>Norbert Rennert wrote:<br><font color="#407f00">> Dimitris, the problem with using non-MDF fields in your lexicon is that they are harder to support for exporting. I would not recommend editing the .cct table yourself unless you are very familiar with that language. The cc tables which come with Toolbox are quite difficult. One method I have used is to process the file after it is in RTF. You can set the marker properties (right click on a marker in Toolbox) to export as either character or paragraph style. Then in MSWord you can search and replace for any extra characters that got exported. You can restrict search and replace (in MSWord) to a specific style by choosing More > Format > Style in the dialog box. I went through this process successfully in publishing our dictionary in paper format.</font><br><br>Dear Norbert,<br>I have thought about making changes in the rtf file (and of course I have already set my own .dot file) but I don't think this is such a good idea since it is most probable that I will be adding and correcting data in the database continuously. This means that I will have to apply the same changes in the rtf <u>every time!</u> I suppose, it is an ultimate solution but it isn't the correct way to do things.<br><br>Martin Hosken wrote:<br><font color="#407f00">> I know that some effort has been underway for a while to make MDF export much more flexible, but when that involved a huge number of cct files (like 10) people started looking for different approaches to typesetting dictionaries. One such tool is shlex which is part of the Shoebox Utilities, which can be found at http://scripts.sil.org/shutils-manual but that is a pretty fearsome tool if you haven't used it before.</font><br><br>I will have a look; I'm not scared easily <img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/01.gif" alt=":)" height="18" width="18"><br><br><font color="#407f00">&
gt; The problem with MDF is that it tries to be two things at once. It tries to be both a true lexical database and a lexical document at the same time. The result is that it keeps tripping over itself.</font> <br><br>I cannot blame MDF for that. It integrates a way to export data in a printable format and you can choose either to use this or some other tool instead. But you can constantly check on the output and this is very useful, things look differently on paper (kind of better actually <img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/03.gif" alt=";)" height="18" width="18">.<br><br><font color="#407f00">> A better solution is to concentrate on the database aspect when doing data entry and only worry about document layout when it comes to final typesetting of a dictionary. This is the direction newer tools are taking.</font><br><br>I'm afraid, I have to agree with Robert that it is better to check the export possibilities early. Imagine that you enter thousands lemmata only to find eventually that you have been inputting incorrectly or that the tool you use is incompatible with the rest of the world.<br><br>As for the new markers I mean to use, the thing is that I cannot find some other solution to solve my problems. Maybe I am missing the obvious but I've been reading the markers documentation a lot and I cannot see a way to have it the way I need it. Which marker would be appropriate to hold the articles (in case of nouns) for example? An article denotes that the lemma is a noun but it is not the actual part of speech itself. And articles should appear immediately after the lexeme and each variants(\ps exported to rtf with Toolbox behaves differently). This is a major problem of mine right now. <br><br>Again, look at this example:<br><font color="#0000bf"><b>synitheia</b> <i>(i) and</i> <b>synitheio </b><i>(to)</i> blah blah</font><br><br>some other friend proposed the <b>CCT program</b>. I will have a look there too. <br><br>thanks for all the discussion,<br>honestly, you are my only suppor
t on this project,<br>hey, I buy beer if we ever get together <img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/01.gif" alt=":)" height="18" width="18"><br>Dimitris<br>
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