Re: [sword-devel] The problem with dictionaries (by David Ker)

2011-02-16 Thread Daniel Owens
David, I hadn't thought about publicizing on Facebook. I have so far avoided getting an account, and I probably will continue to do so until my dissertation is finished. But it would make sense to do that since so many people are on Facebook. Daniel On 02/16/2011 10:38 AM, David Haslam wrot

Re: [sword-devel] The problem with dictionaries (by David Ker)

2011-02-16 Thread David Haslam
Daniel, Thanks for the heads up about http://textonline.org/ TExTonline.org . I have shared the link on facebook, so I hope you will get some more volunteers to take on project ideas. My post has already been liked and shared by others. I would suggest that you use facebook to publicize the re

Re: [sword-devel] The problem with dictionaries (by David Ker)

2011-02-16 Thread Daniel Owens
At TExTonline.org we have set up a project for developing a modern replacement for Strongs using WeSay, and therefore LIFT. I haven't developed a script to transform the LIFT file into TEI, but that is on the to-do list when I actually get to working on this seriously. However, I have realized

Re: [sword-devel] The problem with dictionaries (by David Ker)

2011-02-16 Thread David Haslam
Precisely - I was thinking about the future, in the context of our tag line, Bringing the Gospel to a new generation. i.e. If some agencies that we collaborate with [decide to] use LIFT to develop lexicons, and it becomes attractive for us to support a Bible translation as a SWORD module for the

Re: [sword-devel] The problem with dictionaries (by David Ker)

2011-02-16 Thread Daniel Owens
On 02/16/2011 04:16 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: Maybe this is something to take note of for SWORD dictionary modules in future. SWORD dictionaries are build on TEI or any of the older formats. Peter That is true, but LIFT could be easily transformed to TEI since TEI entries can be structured

Re: [sword-devel] The problem with dictionaries (by David Ker)

2011-02-16 Thread Peter von Kaehne
> Maybe this is something to take note of for SWORD dictionary modules in > future. SWORD dictionaries are build on TEI or any of the older formats. Peter -- GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 Euro/mtl.! Jetzt mit gratis Handy-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl __

Re: [sword-devel] The problem with dictionaries (by David Ker)

2011-02-16 Thread David Haslam
Have posted something about LIFT in http://crosswire.org/wiki/File_Formats#LIFT David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/The-problem-with-dictionaries-by-David-Ker-tp3306638p3308445.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: [sword-devel] The problem with dictionaries (by David Ker)

2011-02-16 Thread David Haslam
As a follow up to this post, David Ker has just reported (via facebook) positively after trying http://lexiquepro.com/ Lexique Pro as a lexicon editor. He writes, "Having a lot of good luck editing my Nyungwe lexicon directly inside of Lexique Pro 3.2.3. If I were starting from scratch I would

[sword-devel] The problem with dictionaries (by David Ker)

2011-02-15 Thread David Haslam
My friend David Ker has worked for a decade in Mozambique with SIL and was part of the translation team for the Nyungwe NT. In this blog post he makes some very valuable observations about dictionaries in the context of Bantu languages such as Nyungwe. http://kanyimbe.posterous.com/the-problems-