bur:16777

[funderburkjim]

date: 02/02/2022 16:43:58
dict: bur
Lnum: 16777
hw: zAs
old: the problem is that zAstra (an important word) which should be under that headword -if not having its proper headword-, is not there, but under zAsa (this is absurd). (a mistake in the printing of the book). I would suggest to put at least zAsayAmi as a head word to correct the problem. (I could find zAstra only after looking to the scan and thought it was maybe under zAsa, (even if not logical regarding the meaning of zAsa)).
new: the problem is that zAstra (an important word) which should be under that headword -if not having its proper headword-, is not there, but under zAsa (this is absurd). (a mistake in the printing of the book). I would suggest to put at least zAsayAmi as a head word to correct the problem.
comm: words not accessible

[funderburkjim]

No change made.

There is no good way currently in the Cologne dictionaries to handle 'subheadwords'. We have encountered this problem
in several dictionaries, including in Burnouf.
It remains an open problem looking for a solution.
The nearest candidate for a solution is the 'bur_hwextra.txt' file.
In the recent work with pwkvn, I added markup <althws>{#X, Y, ...#}</althws> which

• is ignored in make_xml.py for pwkvn
• is used to generate pwkvn_hwextra.txt by a program.

This has the effect of adding the headwords X, Y, ... to the xxx.xml file, and therefore to the displays.
This approach could be adapted to other dictionaries.
I have a vague feeling that there might be undesired side-effects to this approach.

[Andhrabharati]

There is a negative feeling among the CDSL team about promoting all those to HW level, as done in MW, for reasons best known to them.

However, I would just like to ask to have a look at my BUR file under the Devanagari repo once, to have some idea "to handle" them without much hassles.

[funderburkjim]

negative feeling among the CDSL team of promoting all those to HW level,

It should be done . It is hard to do.

[gasyoun]

Burnouf remains a second tier dictionary. Should we spend our limited time on it?

[Andhrabharati]

Burnouf remains a second tier dictionary. Should we spend our limited time on it?

@gasyoun

Recall your asking for inclusion of Skt-Rus. dictionaries sometime back in the CDSL project; do they belong to the "first tier", for Jim to spend his "limited" time on it?

It is not the question of which category the specific work belongs to; it is the "usefulness" of it that matters.
I understand that Odile is referring to Burnouf very much, and submitting the corrections in its CDSL text.

Anyway, I guess Jim could have a look at my earlier BUR file, to get a simpler idea of "handling" this point (which hardly takes any time).