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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Philip Newton</b>
on <!--date-->9:50 12/6/01
<p>In reply to: <a href="269.html">How do you want that data?</a> posted by Mark Rosenfelder</b> on 12:46 12/5/01
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I think I'd agree with Irgend Jemand and Christopher: HTML is probably
more useful. And while the diacritics look nicer, the spelling is nearly
always unambiguous (barring such things as "dechep" -- like the similar
problem in Esperanto with "flughaveno"). And as a bonus, the ugly
spelling is more searchable :)</p>
<p>At any rate, when I want to find something in the Word document, if
the word contains a consonant with a diacritic, then I have to scroll
ugh the document because I can't type it into the "Find" box easily
(vowels are easy since the German keyboard driver has a dead-key
combination for accents, ä ö ü are on the German
keyboard, directly, and I can remember the character code for ë).
So if I could find "shushchan" by typing in those letters, that'd
help ;). (You'd have to think about whether to separate 's' and 'sh' as
you currently do, or whether all words with 'sh' sort between
'sfutlelen' and 'siblec'.) At any rate, Ver2Eng and Eng2Ver are both
more easily searchable than the Cadhinor/Cuêzi grammars, since
that uses a font that my version of Word considers "symbols" rather
than "text", so looking for "and", for example, won't find anything.</p>
<p>I'd probably still download the version to have it accessible more
quickly, but the format probably wouldn't make that much difference.
Plain text would be fine, even :)</p>
<p>Cheers,<br>Philip.</p>
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>OK, cool, everyone likes html so far.
<p>Searching is fine for me, since Maraille is defined such that the
special characters are easily entered with Mac keyboard shortcuts. For
instance, c-hachek is entered by typing Option-c, and so on.
<p>Unfortunately, Maraille under Windows is completely munged up by
Fontographer-- the encoding makes no particular sense.
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