Re: [lojban] Technical, Help Request: What information *should* a Lojban dictionary system have?

[Alan Post <alanpost@sunflowerriver.org>]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 06:02:25PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> I want to be able to generate *at least* a formal dictionary,
> flashcards, simple definitions, and glossing, from one datasource,
> easily, with the data source being as simple as possible.
> 
> Every time we've gone to do something new with this data, we've had
> to do a giant amount of work to convert the data, and then an even
> more giant amount of work to hand-fix all the errors thus
> introduced.  It's crappy, and I want it to stop.
> 
> My talk about making the definitions more Lojbanic was entirely a
> side comment.
> 

I've just purchased a handheld computer called a Ben NanoNote.[1]
I intend to use this machine primarily to study Lojban, and to that
purpose I've ported makfa[2] and intend to port jbofihe and mnemo[3].
I think these three programs are sufficient to create a portable study
environment, giving me opportunities to study and play with Lojban
at times I don't carry my laptop.

I've realized working on these programs that each one of them uses a
different copy of the dictionary.  That strikes me, architecturally,
as a problem.  I'd really like these programs to be drawing from the
same data source: the dictionary does change, and even if we imagine
the community dictionary never changing, *I'm* not currently happy
with it and want to make changes to my local copy.

I have longer term plans to add to the corpus of Lojban-using
programs, and very much support defining a data format that supports
the use cases we put it to.

-Alan

1: http://sharism.cc/
2: http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/openwrt-packages/source/tree/master/makfa
3: http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/User:Alanpost/Backlog
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