tebello-thejane/creis

Salvaging Creissels' 1996 Setswana word list, for use in working with Sesotho tone. ##Creissels' wordlist parser and searcher. This project aims to salvage Creissels' 1996 wordlist. In particular * The original wordlist is in an outdated MacOS text file format, * Creissels' narrow transcription scheme, while preserving every important aspect of the words, is unusable in its present form, and * The wordlist is not searchble for Setswana words in plain text. This project translates the transcription -- taking advantage of modern Unicode &c -- and provides a simple interface to perform plain text searches. I wrote this program to allow me to further my personal Sesotho research (descriptions of the tones of individual words in Sesotho are near-impossible to come by, and Setswana is a reasonable proxy). Perhaps somebody else might also find it useful. ###Technical details ####Requirements In order to compile the source, you need GHC. Development was on GHC 7.8.3, but it seems to compile with 7.6.3 as well. You also need cabal-install. Development was on 1.10. Haskell libraries will be fetched automatically and installed in a sandbox, so you don't need much to compile the source besides a working GHC and cabal-install. You need the dev versions of the readline library installed on your system. **This requirement makes the software incompatible with Windows**. Sorry. Maybe it will work under Cygwin/MinGW. I don't know. ####Configuring and installing Be sure to update your Cabal index before starting by running `cabal update`. If `cabal --version` produces a number lower than 1.10, then you should also run `cabal install cabal-install` afterwards. To configure the application, run `./configure`, then run `cabal install` to build it. The main executable will be found under `bin/creis`. To remove all the files produced by the build process (including the main executable), then run `./clean`. ####Text file had to be processed slightly in order to work: * Encoding had to be set to UTF-8. * Mac LF line endings had to be converted to *nix CRLF. …