On 4/30/2012 7:54 AM, Chris Little wrote:
On 4/30/2012 4:39 AM, David Troidl wrote:
Hi Chris,
I'm certainly no expert on your TEI dictionaries, but wouldn't it make
sense to have the first key be one that would sort properly, and present
the dictionary in true alphabetical order? I'm thinking of Middle
Liddell, as well as the Hebrew. This key wouldn't even necessarily have
to be shown to the user. The second key, the title, could then maintain
the proper accents for display, without hindering sorting, searching or
navigation.
I confess, I don't understand what you're proposing this as an
alternative to.
In the example Karl cites, there's just one actual key per entry. It
is an uppercased version of the entryFree's n attribute. This is the
key that is sorted.
The un-uppercased version from the n attribute is being rendered as
part of the entry text via the TEI filters. This is the part I'm
proposing we retain, but render somewhere else, e.g. right-justified
at the bottom of the entry.
We also render all the text of the entry, which in these cases
includes the text from a title element.
I don't know what 'true alphabetical order' means, but if you mean
localized sort order, it's not possible with the current
implementation of this module type.
My main point was not to remove the key, but to use it effectively.
The point about alphabetical order relates to Middle Liddell. Here is a
little chunk from the lexicon keys, as they are in BibleTime:
ἄωτον
ἀ̆́λη
ἆ
ἆγμα
This may be sorting by Unicode codepoints, but could hardly be called
alphabetical. This arrangement of the lexicon makes it virtually
unusable, at least by me. If the key were something like:
αωτον ἄωτον
it would sort by Greek alphabetical order, then distinguish the accents.
David
--Chris
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