Secondary entries (was Re: [Lexicog] Query on how to deal with coined words)

[Vincent `Bentong` S. Isles]

Hi Ron,

Thanks for this information.

I've seen the description of FieldWorks in the website and I think I
do not need yet such a complex program :) Anyway my experience with
Net 2.0 in my workstation had not been that good so I'll keep on using
Toolbox.

I have read the MDF Guide to Lexicography esp. the one on the issue of
having only roots as main entries. Having had some informal training
myself on the derivational nature of Austronesian languages, I had
preferred a root-based approach at the start. But my co-editors, as
well as other writers, cautioned the me and the group against that,
because a lot of people do not know how to extract the root out of the
words they are using (although I am in the opinion that that is very
easy) - that is in fact the very reason why they keep on misspelling
Cebuano words when they write them. (Cebuano is not taught even in the
schools of Cebuano-speaking areas of the Philippines, and,
unfortunately, Tagalog - the one being taught as the national language
- have a very different orthographical system from Cebuano, and so
people always confuse Tagalog spelling rules for spelling Cebuano words.)

I would like to know that "complex procedure". I had spent half of
yesterday and the whole of today trying to understand the Consistent
Changes program, and I do very well think of CC when you wrote
"complex" :)

Thanks!

--Bentong Isles

--- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, "Ron Moe" <ron_moe at ...> wrote:
>
> It is very difficult to maintain two identical copies of a subentry.
It is
> too easy to make a change in one and forget to make it in the other.
So we
> don't recommend duplicating the entry in the database. It is best to
> maintain a single entry and duplicate it as necessary when you are
ready to
> print.
[snip]



 
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