Some members of the list -Dom, Jacqueline, and Richard- were so kind to offer further, highly informative explanations regarding the "Rev as database" issue. My gratitude to all of them. Obviously, I have to rethink the wisdom of transferring stacks of this type to Rev.
As a matter of fact, what I called "dictionaries" are not the simple databases one is probably prone to associate with the term. These stacks are part and parcel of my research work interacting between each other and further stacks with large amounts of text. Most of the cards also contain "active text". Moreover, since I am a philologist dealing basically with ancient Asian scriptures a number of different scripts of both, the one-byte and the two-byte variety are involved. Years ago, wondering whether a database might facilitate my work I tried FileMaker. Though I'm still using some stuff I did then for everyday tasks, my conclusion was that it was far from being able to deal with texts in the way I needed it. HyperCard turned out to be incomparably more flexible and powerful. Different scripts like Chinese, Devanagari, and Roman with lots of diacritics happily populating one and the same field, all the possible variants of the "find" command, seamless communication between different stacks - almost a dream come true. This does not mean I'm saying HC is perfect. Occasionally, for reasons wildly beyond me, it fails to find what is plainly there but so far I've never come across other software which would serve the specific needs of this aspect of my work better than HC. Still, I will continue experimenting with Rev and want to thank everybody once more for the generous input. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
