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pcun...@gmail.com

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Oct 9, 2008, 6:49:46 AM10/9/08
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A colleague asked me today:

"I'm looking for some advice. One of the things that we want to do is
to give the responsibility of up keeping the Pijin spelling guide to
the government. So I am working with the non-formal education office
on this. What I would like to do is find some software and train some
nationals in the government to use it to properly add / adjust the
spelling guide as needed. The spelling guide is not a dictionary.
Maybe someday, years down the road, it will be but for the near future
it will be just a spelling guide. Do you have any recommendations on
what software we could possibly use for this?"

The "Pijin spelling guide" is quite basic. Each entry is a headword,
part of speech, and gloss (rarely more than one word). There are a
fair number of entries with multiple senses. Nothing fancy, just a
tool to contribute to consistency of spelling. What software would you
recommend for such a project? I'm aware of FLEx, ToolBox and Lexique
Pro (though I wouldn't know which of these to recommend--each has its
merits and demerits). Are there others? Looking forward to your
responses,

Paul

Susanna

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Oct 9, 2008, 8:40:25 AM10/9/08
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> The "Pijin spelling guide" is quite basic. Each entry is a headword,
> part of speech, and gloss (rarely more than one word). There are a
> fair number of entries with multiple senses. Nothing fancy, just a
> tool to contribute to consistency of spelling. What software would you
> recommend for such a project? I'm aware of FLEx, ToolBox and Lexique
> Pro (though I wouldn't know which of these to recommend--each has its
> merits and demerits). Are there others? Looking forward to your
> responses,

The one you're missing is WeSay. See www.wesay.org
WeSay would probably be very suitable for this purpose.
-Susanna

pcun...@gmail.com

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Oct 9, 2008, 9:59:21 PM10/9/08
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On Oct 9, 11:40 pm, Susanna <susanna_im...@sil.org> wrote:
> The one you're missing is WeSay. Seewww.wesay.org
> WeSay would probably be very suitable for this purpose.
> -Susanna
Thanks, I'll bounce the options off him and see what he decides.

Paul
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