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We concluded that we need a different alphabetical order for the community dictionary vs. the linguists' dictionary.

The community dictionary should indeed follow the order in the 2006 language program dictionary - that is:

a aa ə əə č c cʼ h ḥ ḥʷ i ii k kʼ kʷ kʼʷ l lʼ ll llʼ ɬ ƛʼ m mʼ n nʼ p pʼ q qʼ qʷ qʼʷ r rʼ š s t tʼ u uu w wʼ x xʷ x̌ x̌ʷ y yʼ ʕ ʕʼ ʕʷ ʕʼʷ ʔ

The linguists' dictionary should follow the order in MDK's 1981 dictionary:

ʔ a ạ c c̣ cʼ ə ə̣ h ḥ ḥʷ i ị k kʼ kʷ kʼʷ l ḷ lˀ ḷˀ ɬ ƛʼ m mˀ n nˀ p pʼ q qʼ qʷ qʼʷ r rˀ s ṣ t tʼ u ụ w wˀ x xʷ x̣ x̣ʷ y yˀ ʕ ʕˀ ʕʷ ʕˀʷ

Today I got the following bits working:

• Running headers showing first and last items on dictionary pages.
• Front matter with independent numbering in roman numerals.
• Footers on dictionary pages showing alphabetical order (the order itself isn't yet finalized).
• Correct alignment and page-numbering for recto/verso pages (I'd screwed up on that).

Next is the implementation of the English-Moses glossary.

Started the project by doing a trial manual markup of RIII to identify all placenames, and link the London ones to our DB. It took 110 minutes to get the markup done on a bare-bones TEI rendering of the play (from the search project). I'll do one more of these before I start working on NER approaches, so I can compare the two processes.

Back after a wee while!!

1. Links to video files were sent to Essen for his review before publishing them on the site.
2. SA and ES discussed the need of finding an editing software that allows cutting at the millisecond or hundredth of a second. ES suggested "Video Edit Master" which seems to be a free software. Ongoing.
3. Files in "media folder" POMME have been updated with the latest information existing on the server.
4. New xml files entered for pscf5, accf3, cltf6, fraf8
5. Transcript for cltq3 is done in txt format. Needs to be entered into xml file.

One q re missing page numbers sent to HT.

Working on automated generation of some stats-related sections of the Guidelines.

Trying to get the Moses article finished in a timely fashion...

Proofing and rewriting. I've now finished section 4. The conclusion remains to be written, and the intro will have to be reworked at the end.

PS's work is coming along well, and we discussed a range of different issues relating to the best way to implement various features, depending on simple CSS wherever we can, and resorting to JavaScript only when absolutely necessary (and only for cosmetics), and when we do, avoiding large libraries. Made a tweak to the document structure to accommodate some layout issues.

Team meeting to finish up the semester.