Lojban dictionary/glosser program

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>> I am looking for a program which would contain the
>> cmavo and gismu list, and would tell, for any lojban
>> word, if it is a cmavo (giving the corresponding line
>> in the cmavo list), or a gismu (idem), or a lujvo, in
>> which case it would give the definition(s) of its rafsi
>> from the gismu list.
>
>I've been working on and off on a pair of programmes to help
>me both read and write lojban.  The cobbled together glosser
>that I have works well enough to help me read text, albeit
>slowly.


Nora is still working on her glosser, and it is also awaiting John Cowan's
release of the new parser (which it requires and works in tandem with).
It will probably meet everyone's needs at the level being discussed in this
thread, though it does not look up words in the lujvo dictionaries.  No doubt
it will need some tweaking of the keywords and gloss words to make optimal
sense.  But it DOES do word look up and includes the grammar as reported
by the parser.  We may also release an ungrammatical text glosser that
just does the word lookup, but that won't be nearly as pretty.

When Cowan posts his parser, we can probably put up the glosser within a couple
 of days.

The glosser alas is in Turbo Pascal (pre-Windows version) and hence is probably
not as portable as other languages might be.  But we are enhancing old software
that is already written in that language.

lojbab
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