CSD report

[ROOD DAVID S]

I just looked at what I have for CSD files, and have both good and bad
news to report.  The old database has been converted into a shoebox file,
which is good news; all the field names we used now have shoebox codes,
etc.  In addition, there is a formatting program which, when applied to
that file, produces paragraphs with various type faces for different kinds
of information -- essentially what John did for formatting the original
database. The output of the formatting is a Word file, so it will be very
easy to edit on screen.  There should be no need to involve the IDD at any
stage now, and it seems to me that Shoebox would convert to xml, etc.
without too much trouble, too.

The bad news is that, as of today, I'm not getting the right fonts to go
with the formatting.  My recollection is that my programmer fixed that,
but I can no longer remember what she told me to do to make it work.  I'll
have to get her to tell me again.  Meanwhile, Armik is taking the cd home
with him tonight to see if running it on a mac with the Siouan fonts
installed will matter (my programmer, poor misguided child, used a mac for
this work).

The really bad news, however, is that none of this takes care of the messy
editing that still needs doing.  Because the conversion to Shoebox was
automatic, all the errors in demarking stuff in the original database have
translated into formatting errors in the currently "final" version.
Amazing what a missing period can do!!


David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu