Re: Dictionaries, practical question

One option would be TLex

http://tshwanedje.com/tshwanelex/ <http://tshwanedje.com/tshwanelex/>

There are others out there, of course. What your colleague is looking for is called a Dictionary Writing System (DWS). 

All best,
Toma


> 11 янв. 2017 г., в 16:37, Paul Schaffner <[email protected]> написал(а):
> 
> Hi all, this is not strictly TEI, as you'll see, but I suspect there are
> a number of lexicographers here. I was asked yesterday by someone
> compiling a Latin dictionary if there was a standard (perhaps
> database-type) piece of application software in which to compile, edit,
> and search it. He is (sigh) using Microsoft Word at the moment, and has
> rejected the usual filemaker-type databases as not sufficiently
> supportive of word-processor-type formatting (multiple languages and
> fonts, etc.) I of course pointed out that the chief desideratum for
> future functionality was to distinguish unambiguously between different
> structurally distinct pieces of each entry; that XML was a good vehicle
> for recording the sort of mixture of fielded, normalized and free-form
> text typical of dictionaries; that XML could be entered, searched, and
> edited in any number of applications, from Access forms to simple text
> editors; and that TEI did have a functional dictionaries module which
> was worth considering. I am investigating further as to what he actually
> hopes to do with the data, which makes a big difference. 
> 
> But in the meantime: is there in fact a popular software choice amongst
> working lexicographers? (To the extent that anything used by
> lexicographers could be called 'popular'!)
> 
> pfs
> 
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