sillsdev
Word List Export: Enhancement Request
Currently Cog exports a tab-delimited text. This is a good start, but I'm not aware of any software that can import that data in its present state. I have spent many hours doing phonetic transcription on roughly 200 words for 3 languages, totaling about 600 words. That would be a great base of data to export elsewhere. In my case, I would like to import it into FLEx.
FLEx currently imports LIFT, standard format, and LinguaLinks data. I've been out of the FLEx team for awhile, but my assumption at the moment is that LIFT might be the best format for Cog export. That assumption would need to be verified.
Given that FLEx is based on one writing system, I expect that Cog would need a dialog asking which variety to export.
One possible way of doing this would be to use the program called SheetSwiper. SheetSwiper converts an Excel spreadsheet to SFM. Here is the process you would follow:
- Export the word lists from Cog to a tab-delimited text file.
- Import the word lists into Excel or LibreOffice Calc.
- Use SheetSwiper to convert the XLS to SFM.
- Import the SFM into FLEx.
I know that is a lot of steps, but it would be a one time thing.
Well, that's not optimal, and I think you know that, but I'll give it a shot sometime. (We're coming up to vacation/holiday break, and I may not get to this for some weeks.)
The link for SheetSweeper above errors out.
A search for "sheetsweeper palaso.org brings up exactly one hit: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/shoeboxtoolbox-field-linguists-toolbox/rQcLp94_Qis. This is only a discussion. A search for just SheetSweeper brings up things I don't want.
That's odd. The link works for me. SheetSwiper is hosted on the http://projects.palaso.org website, which is up and working.