tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 08 12:15:06 1996
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Alphabetical sorting
- From: Consulat General de Pologne <#[email protected]>
- Subject: Alphabetical sorting
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 15:12:41 EDT
There is an easy way to sort all the words in a text according to
the Klingon alphabetical order, even with the DOS's SORT.
[You must only pay attention if you have a mixed English-Klingon text
which uses Eglish words with Q, -ng, and z].
1. Replace all <Q> with <Qz>
2. Replace all <tlh> with <tzlh>
3. Replace all <ng> with <nzg>
4. Replace all <nzgh> with <ngh>
{for those rare cases where <-n> is followed by <gh->}
5. Replace all <'> with <z>.
Now save your file under a different name, say: my-file.asc (save in the
ASCII format)
Type the DOS's: SORT < my-file.asc > my-file.sor
In the file my-file.sor reverse the operations above (in the same order!)
1. Replace all <Qz> with <Q>
2. Replace all <tzlh> with <tlh>
3. Replace all <nzg> with <ng>
5. Replace all <z> with <'>
(the above No. 4 isn't necessary any more)
and save the file. The index is ready.
The best way for that is to write 2 macro's for the word processor you
use (I use most often the ChiWriter from Horstmann Software, which
according to me exceeds WordPerfect and many other word processors,
even the Windows' ones - with many number of features it possesses
and the don't).
For indexing on EVERY Klingon word in a text the utility called:
Chidex from Horstmann Software - is indispensable. It works
wonderful even if you don't use ChiWriter (but I recommend it!)
Chidex may index EVERY single word (or exclude the words defined by you
as "boring") in any given alphabetical order (It can even sort
separately <Q> and <q>) - and all that automatically. It works
with the texts saved in ChiWriter format, but no problem to convert
ASCII text into CW text, say with a WordPerfect macro.
I have already a set of useful macros for ChiWriter
as well as for WordPerfect - to be used with the elaboration
of a Klingon text, and I might send them to anybody interested.
I am doing the publicity for Horstmann Software because they don't
do any publicity on their own, and their products are worthwhile.
I have been using different versions of ChiWriter for the last seven
years, having used Word Perfect, Word, AmiPro and other in the meantime
and I am still very satisfied with it.
Check yourself:
Horstmann Software Designe Corporation,
1035 S. Saratoga/Sunnyvale Road Suite 5A,
P.O.Box 1807 San Jose, CA 95019-1807, USA
tel. (408) 366-1222, fax (408) 366-0822, e-mail: [email protected]
Excuse me all of you who don't like publicity (I do it for free!)
macheq
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