[sword-devel] Lexical fields

[Timothy S. Nelson]

 	Oh, I should have suggested, rather than "pronunciation", that there 
be beta, transliteration,and phonetic fields.

 	HTH,

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:

> 	Has anyone suggested the following fields in conf files for 
> lexica/dictionaries/etc?
>
> Fields=Strongs,LexForm,Pronunciation,Etymology,Definition
> LexLang=Greek
>
> 	My idea is that the "Fields" entry would consist of a comma-separated 
> list of fields in the lexicon, and that the "LexLang" item would indicate the 
> language of the LexForm field.
>
> 	The list of fields was derived simply by looking at entry 5624 in the 
> StrongsRealGreek dictionary; the "Strongs" entry indicates the Strongs number 
> (5624), the LexForm entry would indicate the lexical form (ὠφέλιμος), the 
> Pronunciation entry would contain the pronunciation data which appears, the 
> "Etymology" entry would contain "from a form of 3786", and the Definition
> field would contain the definition.
>
> 	All of this would, if I understand correctly, replace the GreekDef 
> and HebrewDef options.  The advantage of doing it this way is that indicies 
> could be generated on multiple fields, so that a text that links to strongs 
> numbers could do so, but a text that instead has morphological tagging 
> linking to lexical forms could also do that.  It would also be possible for 
> people to look up words in their lexica using either the word, or the strongs 
> number.
>
> 	Has anything like this been considered?
>
> 	:)
>
>
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