[Lexicog] marking semantic domain subcategories

[Allan Johnson]

Just a quick P.S. on this.  I went back and tried again on creating
multiple levels of subordinate categories, and this time it worked fine for
4 levels (I actually didn't find any limit, but only had 4 categories to
play with in the data, so that's as far as the testing went).  The program
crash I reported previously must have been caused by something else.

Allan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Leman" <wayne_leman at sil.org>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 9:41 PM
Subject: [Lexicog] marking semantic domain subcategories


> 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
> -----
> 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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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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