Re: [sword-devel] TEI dictionaries and front-ends: a suggestion for formatting entries

2008-05-19 Thread Daniel Owens
This makes sense to me. The source files I am working from are electronic dictionaries (not print dictionaries), so the approach is appropriate. It makes a lot of sense to handle different dictionaries differently. I will focus on the English-Vietnamese dictionary first, and as the filters tak

Re: [sword-devel] TEI dictionaries and front-ends: a suggestion for formatting entries

2008-05-19 Thread Chris Little
Daniel Owens wrote: > Like I said, for what it's worth... Perhaps Lexique will give you some > food for thought. It's a nice program for producing a nicely typeset > dictionary quickly and with minimal expertise. I might create Perl > scripts to go between TEI and their format if I ever have the

Re: [sword-devel] TEI dictionaries and front-ends: a suggestion for formatting entries

2008-05-19 Thread Daniel Owens
Like I said, for what it's worth... Perhaps Lexique will give you some food for thought. It's a nice program for producing a nicely typeset dictionary quickly and with minimal expertise. I might create Perl scripts to go between TEI and their format if I ever have the need. I should have start

Re: [sword-devel] TEI dictionaries and front-ends: a suggestion for formatting entries

2008-05-19 Thread DM Smith
On May 19, 2008, at 12:41 AM, Daniel Owens wrote: The HTML didn't come through very well. Here is a screenshot of the Lexique-formatted entry: Daniel Daniel Owens wrote: I have been working on some TEI dictionaries, and (this is obvious, I know) vanilla TEI produces very boring entries

Re: [sword-devel] TEI dictionaries and front-ends: a suggestion for formatting entries

2008-05-18 Thread Daniel Owens
The HTML didn't come through very well. Here is a screenshot of the Lexique-formatted entry: Daniel Daniel Owens wrote: I have been working on some TEI dictionaries, and (this is obvious, I know) vanilla TEI produces very boring entries in the front-ends. I point this out as a preface t

[sword-devel] TEI dictionaries and front-ends: a suggestion for formatting entries

2008-05-18 Thread Daniel Owens
I have been working on some TEI dictionaries, and (this is obvious, I know) vanilla TEI produces very boring entries in the front-ends. I point this out as a preface to offering a suggestion for front-end developers preparing to introduce TEI support. Here is a typical TEI entry: an toạ(phonet