user group website for Lexique Pro?

[loretta oconnor]

Hi Claire,

Thanks for this suggestion, but I'm afraid it's something in the LP code
that generates whatever level of interface involving the Categories field.
(All my Toolbox data is defined as unicode.) After further testing, I need
to correct my earlier description about what happens when reading in a new
lexicon:

-  The data in the \sd field loses any accented vowels, replacing them with
font instructions (e.g. 'acutea')

- Any user-defined labels *do* retain accented vowels - the labels that lose
them are in fact the ones that just repeat the info from the \sd field, by
default (this was what fooled me in my earlier description of the problem)

- There is a pull-down menu on the Category Definition screen where I can
select a properly accented version of the info in the \sd field - ! I still
have to replace them one by one, but I don't have to type them!

Clearly LP recognizes and reproduces special characters such as accented
vowels -- everywhere except in the Categories main processing?

Thanks,
Loretta

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Loretta,
> this may have been answered already, but with regard to 3) if you
> define the language settings for whatever the part of speech language
> is to be unicode (and with a unicode font), it should recognise them
> automatically. Definitely not good to have to change them one by one!
> Claire
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:10 AM, loretta oconnor <lmtoconnor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello all -
> > I just sent the following email to the Lexique Pro support page -- but
> perhaps one of you has an answer?
> > Thank you - Loretta
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: loretta oconnor <lmtoconnor at gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:01 AM
> > Subject: user group website for Lexique Pro?
> > To: support1 at lexiquepro.com
> >
> >
> > Good morning,
> >
> > I've been surfing a bit, trying to find a user group website for Lexique
> Pro. I'm putting the finishing touches on an online dictionary -- hooray
> hooray, and thank you very much for this program! -- but having the same
> type of problem over and over. I'd be happy to "put this out there", to see
> if another user has already encountered and solved these problems, so please
> let me know if I should direct this email elsewhere.
> >
> > Meanwhile...
> >
> > 1) How can I re-use formatting details such as font type/color/size,
> language sorts, category names? I've tried copying chunks of a
> carefully-defined .Config file to newly created .Config files, but this
> doesn't help.
> >
> > 2) I clearly don't quite understand how the function of creating a
> lexicon relates to opening a lexicon. I keep re-doing everything every time
> I create one (with all my preferences) and then open one (and have to repeat
> the process of defining all my preferences).
> >
> > 3) A real heart-breaker: LP doesn't recognize Unicode characters for
> accented vowels in my Spanish-language Semantic Domain field. I have to fix
> these, one by one, for the default field name and for my user-defined
> labels, each time I read in a modified lexicon file! Kinda makes a gal want
> to stop fixing errors in the lexicon, which of course I cannot do.
> >
> > I love the product, but I would also love to stop doing full or even
> partial set-ups every time I open a lexicon file.
> >
> > Please send any suggestions, and thank you for your time.
> > Loretta O'Connor
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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