[Lexicog] dictionary software

[David Frank]

Ken Hill, your alphabetizer field sounds like my alphabetic key field, which
compares with what John Koontz called a sorting handle. The name doesn't
matter -- they all sound like basically the same idea.

So you used 19 fields on the Hopi dictionary. That sounds manageable. I can
understand if a comparative dictionary would require a lot more.

I have dug out the document that was the starting point for my own work on
dictionaries and dictionary software. It is an unpublished document from SIL
Philippines from 1986 that involves 73 potential fields and a flow chart
that was daunting to say the least. And this was in the day before Shoebox
or any other standard format editor. Everything had to be typed in using a
simple text editor. But I don't mean to criticize. This was an unpublished
approach and I'm sure they produced some good dictionaries that way.

I guess my next question is what you used to turn your Hopi dictionary
database into a formatted document for printing.

-- David Frank




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