I have not worked with the SIL Language Software tools before and I am now tasked with making a dictionary already created by a group at my university available again. Editing the dictionary itself is easy enough, but I have some issues (I have been using FieldWorks for this):
I struggle to export it in a suitable format
I struggle to swap which of the translations (English, German, etc…) are used when exporting the dictionary or really just when displaying it in FieldWorks
I struggle to load this as a data structure into Python enabling me to use my coding knowledge to translate it into suitable LaTeX code
Your questions are all related to FieldWorks and not Language Forge specifically, so I would suggest asking for help on the FLEx google group. Language Forge is a light-weight collaborative online editor that requires FieldWorks in order to use. You have to use FieldWorks’s export features in order to get data out of FieldWorks or Language Forge into a publishable format.
Check out the FieldWorks documentation on Writing Systems and Configure Dictionary in order to learn how to display the information you want.
Thank you so much! Does it have an example of importing a .fwdata file into Python? I don’t really need much more than to have it available as an iterable data structure!