Fw: [Lexicog] preparing Shoebox lexicons for publication/ export

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From: "Sean M. Burke" <sburke at cpan.org>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Lexicog] preparing Shoebox lexicons for publication/ export


> At 10:45 AM 2004-01-13, you wrote:
> >There are two projects here at LDC using Shoebox to compile lexicons, and
> >as a consultant on these projects I was again reminded of how
inconsistent
> >users can be. [...]
>
> The way I do Shoebox rendering is just with a bit of Perl.  I use the
> Text::Shoebox module to read in a .sf lexicon, and use RTF::Writer to spit
> out formatted text (with copious reference to /The RTF Cookbook/ and or
the
> /RTF Pocket Guide/).  As I loop over entries, I send warnings either to a
> file complaints.txt or whatever, or I save them in a @complaints that I
> stick at the end of the generated RTF file.
>
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> Sean M. Burke    http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/
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