HCMC Blogs

First pass through is done. We might have to do some XSLT hacking because these review articles, unlike previous ones, have the details of the books in their front matter, and in the PDF view they're showing up in title format, which is probably too big and shouldn't be centred.

Leaving early to burn off a couple of hours.

I've created a new MosesPhonemicCollation jar for sorting based on the phonemic representations. I've also forked the dictionary build process based on a parameter called "dictionaryType", which can be "learner" or "linguist". The former produces a dictionary based on the orthography, sorted with the MosesOrthographyCollation, and the latter produces one based on the phonemic transcriptions, with the new collation. The "alphabet" guides that run across the bottoms of pages are also appropriately different. I've abstracted the front matter into a separate file, and I'm auto-including the personography, although I'm not processing it yet.

Continuing work on tickets arising out of Providence meeting.

I've done about the first third.

Working with TG to pilot the use of new-style boxes from the 2012 template, faked up in the local site CSS, for some attention-grabbing stuff. Coming along nicely.

Report on the Text Directionality Working Group to Council and to the group, and some more work on automated content in the Guidelines.

The idea of having a single collation to sort everything in our db is now impractical, because the orthographical sorting rules clash with the transcriptional sorting rules, so I've created a new, simpler MosesOrthographyCollation class for sorting the orthography only. It's working well, but there are still some outstanding questions about it. In the meantime, we can't update the website because we don't have orthographies there yet, so this is only going to be used in for the print dictionary generation.

This has had to be redone a couple of times due to changes in the list of glyphs, but it's working now and tested with the print dictionary system.