angle brackets around unattested glosses
We are currently using <angle brackets> to denote a gloss supplied by Ewa
or other editors, rather than by the fluent speaker who actually uttered the Nxa'amxcin example. For example:
hə̣́ll
hə̣́ll ECH
hə̣́lə̣l Y39.109
√hə̣́l-C₂
lazy; <tired>
Y39.109
This indicates that speaker Y glossed this word "lazy", but the editors would also like it to appear in the English-Nxa'amxcin word list under "tired".
However, Martin noted that the angle brackets "amount to an alternative markup system, bypassing the XML, so it's definitely not ideal -- it will make it
difficult to find those particular items, or style them in a particular
way. They should be tagged in the proper way at some point."
So we need to figure out how best to tag them. I suggested we could mark them all with <bibl>ECH</bibl>, but we don't actually want these glosses to appear on the database website. We just want them to be searchable when we're creating the word list.
So this is another issue to be sorted out when we next pick up the project.