[Lexicog] FileMaker Pro 7

[Wayne Leman]

Nick, like you I have bemoaned the lack of an easy user interface for 
Shoebox/Toolbox. However, with the Lexique Pro program that uses 
Shoebox/Toolbox files we now have a quite good user interface. I even posted 
a message a few weeks ago, where it is possible to do all your work from 
within Lexique Pro, without having to learn how to use Shoebox/Toolbox. It's 
not a perfect way to take advantage of the power of Shoebox/Toolbox, but it 
does bypass the learning curve for those programs.

Lexique Pro is one of several lexicography programs listed in the Files or 
Links section of this list's website. It also has its own website, at url:

http://www.lexiquepro.com

Wayne
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Wayne Leman
Cheyenne website: http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language

>I know of several dictionary projects that have used FMPro and it is quite
> possible to build a database with related tables that starts you on your
> way. I think it has real problems in allowing arbitrarily long and complex
> entries, but it does have a great data entry facility, with the
> possibility of having lots of controlled vocabularies. Version 7's XML
> export allows you to do interesting things with XSL conversions. The
> projects that kept using FMPro until they built sizeable dictionaries (say
> over 3000 headwords) had terrible problems in getting the data represented
> in a word-processing document, but that could be because they built arcane
> data structures with lots of scripts that made the data itself less
> accessible than it should have been.
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> But all of this doesn't go near Shoebox/Toolbox as a serious dictionary
> database with the added functionality of a text-glossing tool. But it
> lacks the easy interface that FMPro provides. Nevertheless, I reckon it is
> well worth a little effort to learn how to use Shoebox/Toolbox.
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>> Has anyone on this list used FileMaker Pro 7 to build a dictionary
>> database?  If so, I would
>> appreciate hearing your experiences and evaluation of this software for
>> dictionary databases.
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>> Thanks in advance,
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>> Brook
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>> Brook Danielle Lillehaugen
>> Graduate Student
>> UCLA
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