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Germanic Lexicon Project
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Author: Sean Crist (Nuance Communications)
Email: kurisuto at panix dot com
Date: 2007-05-01 03:07:30
Subject: Re: LaTeX version of B-T
> Is anyone working on a LaTeX conversion of B-T, so we can get a properly
> typeset pdf file? If it would not be duplicating any existing work, I might
> have a go. My experience gained on my edition of charters
> (keithbriggs.info/AS_charters.html) would make this fairly easy.
> I might additionally be useful to have an index of every word in the entries
> as an extra cross-reference tool.
As far as I know, nobody is working on typesetting the text. This would be great if you wanted to undertake it.
If you come up with a typesetting solution, I recommend hanging onto the scripts or code or whatever you come up with, so that you can run it again later. The major hand-corrections are done, but we're not at a final product.
The Greek, Hebrew, and Runic letters are in the process of being filled in. Ondrej Tichy is overseeing this.
Future work which hopefully will eventually be done includes:
-Joining the entries which are broken across two pages
-Marking up the whole text with XML tags to indicate headword, etymology, definition, etc.
-A really good thing to do would be to shake out errors by automatically aligning the Old English passages with the Toronto corpus of Old English. We'd need to work out the exact way to do this, but I'm sure the increased accuracy would make this worth doing.
--Sean