From looking at your answer to my first question, Martin, I think I may not have explained myself very well.So I'll try again. Both of my questions are exemplified in the following sample from the s-rtr.xml file. Note that both the forms have similar pronunciation types--in other words the types are both phonemic, identical to each other, and identical to the first phonemic example of the entry word and of the shape that that word takes in the hyphenated element. Although each one of the forms has different glosses and sources, they are both part of the same entry because they are just variants of the same word. The question is, in this kind of case, should we specify the pronunciation segment type as "phonemic". Does this confuse anything? Is it necessary? How will it affect the search function?

              <form>
                  <pron>
                     <seg type="phonemic">ṣə̣́nṣə̣nt</seg>
                  </pron>
               </form>
               <sense>
                  <def>
                     <seg>
                        <gloss>tame</gloss>
                     </seg>
                     <bibl>EP2.68.8</bibl>
                  </def>
               </sense>
               <form>
                  <pron>
                     <seg type="phonemic">ṣə̣́nṣə̣nt</seg>
                  </pron>
               </form>
               <sense>
                  <def>
                     <seg> it is
                        <gloss>tame</gloss> or <gloss>gentle</gloss>
                     </seg>
                     <bibl>JM3.21.11</bibl>

As far as the question about English glosses is concerned, I understand that the asterisks should be removed, and I will do that. But I don't entirely understand how the gloss function works. So if you look at the last example just above, the meaning is contained within two types of tags, the one referring to "segment" and the one referring to the gloss itself. I'm wondering if you could define for me exactly what the gloss tags should contain. In this case, for instance, you've got 'it is' and 'or' outside of the gloss tags. But they are also part of the meaning. However, they do not need to be targetted in an English-Nx rendition of the word-list.We would search for 'tame' or 'gentle', not 'it is tame or gentle'. I hope I am making myself clear. So if I go back to all the glosses and remove asterisks and add gloss tags, how exactly do I position the gloss tags?