mw:12831

[funderburkjim]

date: 07/06/2022 12:30:29
dict: mw
Lnum: 12831
hw: abhisampad
old: id.
new:
comm: In the original ("printed book") it is clear that "id." means content of the previous article, abhisampatti; but here, in the "electronic" form it is absolutely unclear. The means must be found to resolve situation.

[funderburkjim]

Many of us have had a similar thought.
Here is the base form in mw.txt of this example:

THE PREVIOUS entry
<L>12830<pc>73,2<k1>aBisampatti<k2>aBi-sampatti<e>2
<s>aBi-sampatti</s> ¦ <lex>f.</lex> becoming anything, becoming similar or equal to, <ls>KātyŚr.</ls><info lex="f"/>
<LEND>
THE ENTRY WITH DANGLING 'id.'  
<L>12831<pc>73,2<k1>aBisampad<k2>aBi-sampa/d<h>2<e>2
<hom>2.</hom> <s>aBi-sampa/d</s> ¦ <lex>f.</lex> <ab>id.</ab>, <ls>ŚBr.</ls><info lex="f"/>
<LEND>

What new markup should be used? How should the new markup be displayed to the user?

One reason this problem doesn't bother me much is that I use list displays (such as that in simple search). In such a display, the 'previous entry' can be seen in the list on the left of display, and can be clicked on to see the previous entry.

But of course the user of such displays as advanced search will not have that contextual list, and so will be frustrated.

[Andhrabharati]

But of course the user of such displays as advanced search will not have that contextual list, and so will be frustrated.

@funderburkjim

How about having another "field" taking the L-number as the search-entry?

One could key-in the L-number and get the prev. entry; of course this would 'miserably' fail in case of MW, where many L-numbers [23279 out of 287582, i.e. about 8%] contain decimal numbers, in many variant manners (added mostly in ad-hoc style) that a user cannot "predict"!

[Andhrabharati]

Two more ideas @funderburkjim, to cater to the issue--

1. To show Next & Prev. entries, as done in showing next & Prev. pages of the Lexicon pages.
   
   (The arrow marks could be at the L-number which is in a separate line at the end of the entry matter; this is a generic solution, to see the dict. data entry-wise)

2. Always show the preceding entry (probably in grayed out background) and current entry (in white background as is done now), wrt the search key result.

As this is a server side activity (that "knows" the entry number sequence of the particular dictionary), these two options have no limitations or drawbacks (as against the idea mentioned in the above post).

[funderburkjim]

To show Next & Prev. entries ... Next makes sense in the B and M displays, but not in the A display.

Another idea: revise the markup in mw.txt

<L>12831<pc>73,2<k1>aBisampad<k2>aBi-sampa/d<h>2<e>2
<hom>2.</hom> <s>aBi-sampa/d</s> ¦ <lex>f.</lex> 
<ab>id.</ab> (same as <s>aBisampatti</s>)

This would work in any of the displays.