export with modified grammatical categories

[elaine_...@sil.org]

Hi, I am working on converting several FLEX databases to printable formats and for most purposes I’ve found Lexique Pro to be the best choice. However, there are certain grammatical category details that simply will not go through in the export from FLEX no matter how many configurations I’ve tried. My main issue is that we have feminine and masculine nouns, but the ‘m’ and ‘f’ that show up in the grammatical category in FLEX do not come through to Lexique Pro. This seems odd to me as the modified categories “compound noun”, “proper noun”, etc., come through without a problem. Has anyone else experience this and found a solution? I have tried using other options for exporting, but even with this problem Lexique Pro works best for my needs, so I’d like to find a solution within the program. I’m not sure if the problem is on the FLEX side or the LP side so it would help me to know if anyone else has had the same experience.

Thanks!

-Elaine Scherrer, SIL Chad

[Beth-docs Bryson]

Are the m and f actually part of the Grammatical Categories, or are they set up as features?

That is, do you have separate categories for Noun Feminine and Noun Masculine, or just one category Noun, and then in the entry, in the Inflection Features field, m and f are selected?

There is a bug in FLEx at the moment where the features show up attached to the category, so it’s hard to tell the difference between the category and the features.  It wouldn’t surprise me if the features are not going over to LexiquePro.

The solution may be to make separate categories.

Also, it would be interesting to know what aspects of FLEx are not helpful for your printing purposes.  That could be an off-list response.  In general, there is typically more power to configure things in FLEx than in LexiquePro, and if there is functionality missing, it would be good for the developers to at least be aware of it (whether the can do anything about it in the short term or not).

-Beth

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