[Lexicog] marking semantic domain subcategories

[Wayne Leman]

Allan, thank you for such clear instructions. I am using the latest version
of Lexique Pro (2.4), so perhaps the program will not crash as it did for
you when drilling down more than two levels. Also, I was not aware that one
could drag-and-drop within Lexique Pro. That's cool!  :-)

Wayne
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Wayne Leman
Cheyenne website: http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language

> Hi Wayne,
>
> Yes, you can display a category as subordinate to another in Lexique Pro.
> An example of this is in the Bambara sample that comes with the program.
> To set up categories in your own dictionary to work this way, you don't
> need to edit anything in the dictionary file itself.  All that's needed in
> the dictionary file is what you already have - just \sd fields with a
> unique code or name for each basic category.  The definition of
> subcategories is all in the configuration file.  This is edited as
> follows:
>
> - Start up Lexique Pro and load your dictionary
> - On the menu bar, go to Tools; Configure Lexicon
> - Press "Next" 12 times to get to the configuration of Categories
> - Select the "Category Names" tab
> - With the mouse, click on the category that you'd like to define as a
> sub-category (horse), and drag it onto the one that is to become its
> parent
> category (animals).  When you release the mouse button, check to see that
> the display has reconnected it as a subcategory of the right thing.
>
> You can also change the display names for the categories, if you have
> codes
> that you don't want to display as is:
>
> - Select the category whose name you'd like to display differently
> - click on "Change"
> - Enter the desired English name
>
> When you're done configuring the Categories, press "Next" 5 more times to
> return to your dictionary and see how it has changed the Lexique Pro
> Categories view.
>
> Out of curiosity, I tried creating a subcategory of a subcategory to see
> if
> this could be done - but it crashed the program. Apparently one level of
> subcategories is all that's currently supported (version 2.2).
>
> Allan



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