Thanks for the info! I will check it out. soichi 2012/1/23 Alan E. Davis > 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 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 wrote: >> >>> () Soichi Ishida >>> () 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. >>> >>> >> >