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From: "Norbert Rennert" <norbert.rennert at sil.org>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Lexicog] Getting to know you


> Wayne Leman wrote:
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>   Why don't you introduce yourself and tell what your interests and
activities are in lexicography. In what languages have you researched the
lexicon? If you are helping produce a dictionary (or have already done so),
what language was it for?
>
> Hi, I'm Norbert Rennert and work with SIL. For the last 9 years I worked
in Suriname in the Sranan Tongo creole language. I helped produce two
bilingual dictionaries, both for print and for the web. In addition to
publishing our dictionaries, I also published several other dictionaries in
Suriname languages to the internet in interactive html format (not PDF).
Several of those dicitonaries are of historical value and date from the
1700's. Several other dictionaries include the ability to read vernacular
stories on the same page and look up definitions in the dictionary by
double-clicking on words in the stories. These dictionaries are published
at: http://www.sil.org/americas/suriname/. This site has the largest
collection and almost only dictionaries published by the Shoebox export to
html feature. I have found only one other dictionary that has used this
feature and has been published on the Internet. If anyone else has seen this
format on the Internet I would be interested in the urls. During this
process I gained some expertise in capabilities and limitations of using
Shoebox for publishing to html which I would be happy to share with other if
interest exists.
>
>
> All the best for the New Year,
>
> Norbert Rennert
>
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