May 7, 2007
Martin, as you point out the affix file is big. The reason for the size is the following: at the moment in going through the affix file, I am just focusing on two things 1) filling in the feature structures, and 2) fixing up big editing problems like the cross-reference problem and the merging of entries.

When you wrote the conversions for the files, you left in unconverted forms with a comment that says: “The following list of elements is copied from the source doc for information and checking purposes.” Because I am not doing most of the detailed editing on the entries at this stage (since that would take a very long time, and we though that just focusing on feature structures would be sufficient for now), I am not deleting the unconverted forms as I go through the affix file. Taking out the unconverted forms would make the affix file much smaller. So for your purposes maybe we should make a copy of the affix file which has all the unconverted forms deleted?

I will be finished the current pass through the affix file by the end of this week, I hope. At that point we could make a shorter version of the affix file for you to work with.

After I finish the affix file, I thought I would return to working on the phargyngeal file since it is fairly small, and has already been worked on a bit. If I could finish that fairly soon, you would have a second non-affix file to work with. The editing work is more time-consuming than we had expected it would be because it is turning out that I need to do quite a lot of manual input of phonemic representations and file-merging, cross-references, etc. We had not anticipated this before I began working on the affix file.

ps Thanks for the AutoP info.