[Lexicog] More on sort orders for Karuk

[Susan Gehr]

On 10/26/04 9:33 AM, "fieldworks_support at sil.org"
<fieldworks_support at sil.org> wrote:

> You can change the alphabetical order by editing the language encodings as
> you did. If this prevents the interlinear from working afterwards, I would
> double check that the appropriate lines in your text file (the word line
> and the morpheme break line) as well as the lexeme line and alternate form
> line in your dictionary, all use the same encoding.

I tried changing the sort order again, and I double checked to make sure
that all the lines you mentioned had the same language encoding.

I changed from

a aa ch ee f h i ii k m n oo p r s t th u uu v x y

to 

a ch ee f h i k m n oo p r s t u v x y

I get the same problem that I did before, the interlinearization fails to
work. Also, I noticed that all the words that start with aa ii uu and th are
now forced to the bottom of the sorted list.

a phrase such as 

\t pamú'aav

should have the following lines

\m pa- mu-          aav
\g DET 3.sg.poss    face
\e his face

But instead it turns up the following

\t pamú'aa  v
\m pa- mu- ***

And I don't know if it means anything, but in the language encodings dialog
box, under the Characters tab, all the double vowels I used to have, are
still listed and do not go away, even after I quit and restart the program
after having made and approved my changes to the sort order.


Because of an unrelated problem, I had to do a clean install on one of my
Macs. On a lark, when I reinstalled Shoebox, I created a new language
encoding for Karuk with my preferred sort order.

Then I removed the database type information from a copy of my dictionary
and brought it into Shoebox on this restored machine.  This one does work.
I've even managed to get it to interlinearize correctly.

I think that's why I suspect that somehow Shoebox has remembered the long
vowels in the character set for the Karuk language encoding.

Susan Gehr
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Susan Gehr
Karuk Language Program Director
Karuk Tribe of California
PO Box 1016, Happy Camp, CA 96039
(800) 505-2785 x2205

Karuk Language Resources on the Web - http://www.karuk.org/
Karuk Section of William Bright's Site - http://ncidc.org/bright/karuk.html



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