Creating and exporting a new field in Toolbox

[Breanna Kelly]

Hello!

My team is using Toolbox to develop a dictionary for an Australian Indigenous language. In the printed dictionary, we would like verb entries to have the unsuffixed stem as their headword. Then, after the definition (\de), we’d like to have a field that highlights that verb’s present tense form.

At the moment, we’re imagining a system in which we type the present tense verb form and its definition into some field in that verb’s entry. Ideally, then, Toolbox could export this field right after \de and format it like this (or as close as possible to this) in the printed dictionary:

Present tense: bajalku ‘eat’

Would anyone be able to advise us on how to do this (or how to approximate it, if it’s not possible)?

Thanks in advance!

Breanna

[Karen Buseman]

It is quite possible to do what you are hoping for, but it's got various complications. I'll be glad to send you the instructions, but I am also glad to do it for you. To do it, I will need a few entries from your dictionary containing the desired fields and all the various settings files from your project (*.lng, *.typ, *.prj) plus MDFDict1.cct and MDFDict2.cct and whichever MDF*.dot you use. (It's a lot!) If you can just zip up your whole project and send it, that would be convenient, but I know some groups have rules against sharing much data.

Send it to Toolbox  @  sil.org  (without the spaces -- the Group abbreviates anything it recognizes as an email address). 

Karen

Toolbox Support

[Breanna Kelly]

Hi Karen,

Thanks very much! We'd love to try it ourselves first with the help of your instructions, if you'd be happy to send them (and to answer the follow-up questions we're likely to have!). 

Thank you,

Breanna

[Karen Buseman]

Sorry for the delay, but I haven't found the document I was looking for. I'll write up something and get it to you in a few days.

My apologies!

Karen

Toolbox Support

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