LL-L 'Holidays' 2006.12.30 (02) [E]

[Sandy Fleming]

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> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Holidays 
> 
> And let's not forget that December 31 is Sandy Fleming Day on
> Lowlands-L!
> 
> Happy 50th, Sandy, and many thanks for all your support behind and in
> front of the scenes another year!

Ron, you'll give me a red face!

> You ought to check out Sandy's monumental Scots literature collection:
> http://www.scotstext.org/

Yes, this has been static for a good while, though there's always plenty
to do there if you like reading.

It always makes me smile when people say "monumental (and similar)
collection", because it only has a fraction of what I have here in my
library for putting up. It does take a long time to prepare a text, and
although I've always written automatic tools to help offline, I need to
get them organised so that they will free me of all possible
housekeeping tasks so that I just have to concentrate on getting the
text right, not having to keep track of everything.

I'm sick and fed up with Perl's insane approach to Object Orientation,
however, so am currently in the process of learning Python so I can get
everything done properly. It will be a relief to see the back of Tim
Toady's head, too! Sorry, I suppose only geeks will understand that, but
there are quite a few on the list  :)

There are some tools I've developed along the way for handling dialect
(or language variant) texts, which I'll make available once I'm happy
with them in Python, but there's one I did a couple of years ago is in
JavaScript and has been available ever since at:
http://sandyfleming.org/annotated/ This is "Glossary Show", a mechanism
for annotating online texts with glossaries. It underlines glossary
words in a subtle way, and only when the user hovers the cursor over the
text, thus keeping the text clean for reading yet making the glossary
visible when required. It also has a feature which allows the user to
highlight lines in the browser while reading... not sure if that's
really useful, I might remove it, or I might add useful features to it!
Thanks go to Ron for trying this system out repeatedly until it looked
good and worked well. If you know JavaScript you should have no trouble
implementing it on your site. The only challenge is to actually mark up
your HTML with glossary items - I'm working on something to ease that
process right now, then we should see glossaries starting to appear on
Scotstext!

New Years Resolution: to try and get those recordings done for the
anniversary site!

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/

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