[Lexicog] Re: Shoebox thoughts

[Susan Gehr]

On the Windows side, Shoebox has been superseded by Toolbox <http://www.sil.org/
computing/toolbox/index.htm>.

On the Mac side, Shoebox 5 is the current version.  I hear rumors and speculation that
Toolbox may be coming for Mac OS X.  I sure hope so!  I experienced a lot of random
crashes when trying to use Shoebox while running the Classic environment of OS X.  I have
no such problems when booted into OS 9, so I maintain some machines that run OS 9 just
so I can keep using Shoebox.  I would like to be able to not be dependent on OS 9
anymore, as support/compatibility for it just keeps withering away.

In my opinion, Shoebox is indeed a very difficult program to learn how to use well.  I beat
my head against the Shoebox wall for well over two years before I finally went and took a
two-week course on Shoebox. Pre-training, when I ran into a problem, I had no idea how
to solve it.

Post-training, I am able to work through my troubles and make Shoebox do what I need it
to do. I think I have an idea how Shoebox wants me to 'talk' to it.

Now I feel like I'm using it with some success, and the Karuk language dictionary has over
6,000 entries.

Are you interested in working with your Shoebox files again? If so, I'm willing to try to
answer any Shoebox questions you might have, as I think other folks on this list might be.

yootva,
Susan Gehr
Karuk Language Program Director
Karuk Tribe of California

--- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, phil cash cash <pasxapu at D...> wrote:
> Thanks everybody for your help.
>
> I have a number of dictionary files in Shoebox 4.0 (is this a dinosaur
> now?) but could never really master getting a Shoebox print out as it
> seemed to a pretty complicated manuever.  I may still be able to load
> these files into Lexique Pro it seems.  For this reason I stopped using
> SB and so I just create lists in plain txt and rtf files.  of course, I
> do not claim to be a lexicographer just an interested individual
> (tribal member, linguistics student, speaker) who likes to create
> non-ordinary dictionaries (placenames, personal names, kinship, etc)
> every so often.
>
> Phil Cash Cash (cayuse/nez perce)
> UofA





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