Re: local database types for personal use

[ishi soichi <soichi777@gmail.com>]

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Thanks for the info!
I will check it out.

soichi

2012/1/23 Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com>

> Did you find a format amenable to your needs?
>
> I had intended to send this short example of band format some months
> ago.    Ban format is perfect for what you are doing.  You can write simple
> utility routines to search or sort the database.
>
> Two entries in  band format follow.  A record does not need to occupy on
> line.  "..hw" always begins a new record:
>
> ..hw lun kaeja  .gs   .ge Jellyfish (secondary etc names describe the
> specific type)  .ec Jellyfish  .cg cnidaria  .la Mokil  .src  .n Father of
> a student   .dt [2010-08-27 Fri]
>
> ..hw lagong  .gs   .ge Big, green fly  .ec   .cg Insect  .la Cebuano  .src
> FSD .n came up as an exception to the general name for fly.   .dt
> [2010-06-11 Fri]
>
> .. begins a record
> ..hw  headword tag
> .gs  Scientific Name
> .ge  English gloss
> .ec  English common name
> .cg  catagory
> .la  language
> ..src  Source
> .dt  date
>
> I wrote some little macros / routines that converted a record into a
> typeset dictionary in LaTeX.  A frontend, as it were.  Each tag is typeset
> in a distinct font.  Robert Hsu who was at the University of Hawaii
> linguistics department in the 90s, wrote a spitbol/snobol4 package for
> manipulating data in band format, used in producing several dictionaries of
> several pacific languages.   Others have developed band formats distinct
> from this one.
>
> Alan
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Band format is a free-form format used in linguistics for lexical data.
>>
>> The following is  from a google search.
>>
>>
>> http://billposer.org/Linguistics/Computation/LectureNotes/ParsingLexica.html
>>
>> I have used my own version of this format for a lexicon.  If you wish, I
>> can spend more time explaining how ti did it.
>>
>> Basically, each "field" is marked by a dot and one or more letters.  Two
>> dots mark the beginning of a record.
>>
>> ..hw  means "headword"  (use anything you want)
>> .d    could mean date
>> .ge  could mean "english gloss"
>> .gd  could mean "dutch gloss"
>> .p    could mean part of speech.
>>
>> Two spaces preceed each .X
>>
>> New categories can be made up on the fly.
>>
>> Alan Davis
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>wrote:
>>
>>> () Soichi Ishida <soujiro0725@gmail.com>
>>> () Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:47:58 +0900
>>>
>>>   I have totally forgotten EBD :)
>>>
>>>   What if I have more than one table?
>>>
>>> Then your forgetfulness is ideal.
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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