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Hi, Gray.
I recently imported a Toolbox database into FLEx that included two forms for each entry—one with tone marks and the other without. The forms with no diacritics represented the orthographic conventions adopted by the community; those with diacritics contained the details necessary to enable FLEx to distinguish otherwise homographic forms and correctly parse words containing multiple morphemes.
As I prepared the data for import into FLEx, I sought counsel from a more-experienced colleague, and together we considered several options for the import of these two forms, which I’ll refer to as “orthographic” (no diacritics) and “phonological” (tone marked via the use of diacritics):
1) Import the phonological (PHON) form into the Lexeme Form field (used by the parser) and the orthographic (ORTH) form into the Citation Form field (used as the headword of the dictionary entry if present).
2) Import ORTH into the Lexeme Form field and treat PHON as a pronunciation, putting it in the Pronunciation field. (Since Citation Form would be empty in this scenario, the Lexeme Form would serve as headword of the dictionary entry.)
3) Import both ORTH and PHON into the Lexeme Form field but into two different writing systems.
For reasons that I can only partially recall at this point, we opted for the third of these possibilities, and it worked very well. I think this option would work well for you too. However, as Andy Black pointed out, you might need to accept having the ORTH data displayed below the PHON data in your interlinear in order to enable the parser to access the PHON data.
Note: If you choose at some point to also include data in IPA representation, you can add a third writing system and have all three forms in the Lexeme Form field.
Best wishes,
Kevin Warfel
Associate Dictionary & Lexicography Services Coordinator
Rapid Word Collection workshop consultant
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