An Overview of Waterloo's Database Software for the OED

Frank Wm. Tompa

Centre for the New OED and Text Research
University of Waterloo

CHWP B.13, publ. September 1996. © Editors of CHWP 1996. [First published in CCH Working Papers, 2 (1992).]

[Abstract / Résumé]

KEYWORDS
OED, database software, descriptive markup, LECTOR, PAT

1. Background
2. Text data modelling
2.1. Presentational markup
2.2. Procedural markup
2.3. Descriptive markup
3. Support for elastic typography
4. Support for full text search
5. Using Pat and Lector together for the OED
6. State of the software
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