From olivia@sonicblond.com Fri Aug 25 08:39:55 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27621 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2000 15:39:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 25 Aug 2000 15:39:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO erika.sixgirls.org) (207.12.88.107) by mta2 with SMTP; 25 Aug 2000 15:39:54 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by erika.sixgirls.org (8.11.0+3.3W/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e7PFdrd00679; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:39:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:39:52 -0400 (EDT) To: David Twery Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] le stura be la gihuste In-Reply-To: <002a01c00e76$01d770c0$aa45fea9@voyou> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Olivia X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 4046 coi rodo > I can either upload or directly send you the file, if you would like. I am > still picking out errors (and recovering from a nasty virus episode), but > will be done within a few days. The Excel97 workbook is about 3 MB and > performs quite well. It can also be used to export the data in any number of > standard formats, including MDB, DBF and WKS files. > My longer-range project is to compile various gismu subsets, mainly to > facilitate study (I absolutely HATE Logflash). I already have lists of > colors, numbers, culture and metric gismu, plants and animals and their > by-products, clothing, furniture, and a few more lists. > Output from a spreadsheet can be XML-ized. It may not be a snap, and it may > require some custom programming, but I assure you, it can be done. yes, david, it *is* a snap! just harness the power of perl :D it is great for feeding in text files (spreadsheets are easily converted to delimited text files) and grinding them out as your heart desires. if you want any help doing stuff with your .xls data, feel free to ask me for a quick script. i already wrote two scripts to sort the gismu and cmavo lists alphabetically (by lojban and by english, respectively -- i could only find the gismu list sorted by english and the cmavo listed sorted by lojban), because i wanted handy print-outs for use during face-to-face conversation. all four sorted versions can be viewed/downloaded from my site: http://www.sonicblond.com/eng-loj-cmavo.htm http://www.sonicblond.com/loj-eng-cmavo.htm http://www.sonicblond.com/eng-loj-gismu.htm http://www.sonicblond.com/loj-eng-gismu.htm you are welcome to take the scripts themselves and customize them for personal use. they are quick and dirty and pretty straightforward: http://www.sonicblond.com/lojsort-cmavo.pl http://www.sonicblond.com/lojsort-gismu.pl co'o, oLIvian -- I don't want the world. I just want your half.