hiding some dictionary data

Tue Nov 19 08:23:40 UTC 2013

Another alternative is to treat the set of "restricted lexical items" as a
true set (not just a bunch of material that has a particular feature for a
given field) and to manage them separately from the main lexicon. In
Toolbox (not sure how Flex does it) you would set up a separate lexicon
restricted.lex (that could have the same .typ definition as the main
lexicon). If you share your project with other people, simply leave out the
restricted.lex file.

For my work on Sasak in Indonesia I have three separate lexicons: the main
Sasak one, unintegrated Indonesian loans, and a Kawi (literary language)
lexicon. For text glossing you simply need to tell the lookup procedure to
search each lexicon in sequence for matches and to copy across relevant
data, eg. morpheme gloss, part of speech.

For lexicon export, eg. for printing, the user can choose which data files
to include in the export.

Might be worth trying this in your case.

Best,
Peter

On 18 November 2013 22:59, Monica Macaulay <mmacaula at wisc.edu> wrote:

> Similar to what Natasha describes, we have a "DNP" (do not publish)
> checkbox on our 2 dictionary databases.  Again, that would just be for
> export, and would not help if you were giving the entire database to
> someone, or giving them access to it.
>
> Monica Macaulay
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>
>
> On Nov 18, 2013, at 4:43 PM, "Warner, Natasha - (nwarner)" <
> nwarner at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> what software are you currently using for your dictionary?  Fieldworks
> Language Explorer (FLEx) will allow you to filter out items before you
> export a dictionary, based on the value of pretty much any field.  So you
> can give items you want to hide a certain value in the "Status" field for
> example, or a certain value in any of several other fields that you might
> not be using otherwise, and then filter out anything with that value in
> that field.  For example, give those words a status of "private" and then
> filter so that items with status=private are filtered out.  Then you export
> your dictionary, and those words won't be included.  You would have to
> watch out for whether any other word's entry cross-references the words you
> want to hide, if you fill in fields that cross-reference other words.
>
> This wouldn't hide the words if you gave a copy of the whole database to
> someone else to use on their computer, using the FLEx software.  But it
> would keep the words from appearing in a dictionary that you create as a
> pdf or other document to give copies of to someone else.
>
> If you're also creating a text collection with translations, then it would
> be more complicated to hide specific words, since they might occur right in
> the middle of a sentence.  But I think that would be difficult no matter
> what software you're using, and it would only be about text collections,
> not the dictionary.
>
> I suspect that other software can do this too, and it might be that FLEx
> wasn't the best choice for other reasons, but it can do this.
>
> Good luck with your work,
> Natasha Warner
>
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> behalf of Wayne Leman [wleman1949 at gmail.com]
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> *Subject:* [ilat] hiding some dictionary data
>
> Someone suggested I post this message here, besides where I first posted
> it, on the Lexicography List:
>
> Sometimes we discover lexical items which need to have a restricted status
> within the language and academic communities. I want to be able to enter
> that data in my dictionary program but it must be accessible only to those
> who are authorized to view it.
>
> Besides working as a lexicographer for my job, I do genealogy as a hobby.
> My genealogy program allows for certain kinds of information to be hidden
> from other viewers. I need the same ability to hide certain kinds of
> lexical information.
>
> Have any of you encountered this issue before?
>
> What solutions have you found?
>
> Do you know of any dictionary software that allows us to hide some
> information?
>
> Wayne
>
>
>

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