User:Martha Forsyth/Glossary work

 as of 21:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC), This work has MOVED to Wikia (Bulgarian Dialect Glossary). Edits should be made there, not here!

Hosting possibilities

 * bg.wikibooks.org?
 * bg.wiktionary.org?
 * Peter suggests Wikia. I looked at it tonight and can't make head nor tail of it!  Anything I look at seems to be "barely started", or a redirect.  How do you "search Wikia", as you "search Wikipedia"?  Maybe I'm missing the point, but I sure am!

Pleasing formats (examples)

 * Речник на турските думи в българския език
 * United Kingdom English for the American Novice:"English" to "American" Dictionary — this has a nice way of breaking things up (the section on which I did "print preview" was 7 pages but had the bar down the side). But it needs a way to move to other sections without going always back to the first page.

Wiki how-to

 * Help:Table Golly, that has it ALL! including the next point.


 * Q: How do I fix the vertical alignment in tables, if I have unequal #s of lines in the cells? A: Start EVERY row with |- valign=top (at least in rows where it's needed - simplest to do all), and it applies across the row.


 * In sub-pages of bg.wiktionary.org/wiki, __БЕЗСЪДЪРЖАНИЕ__  gives a clickable "index" bar that takes you down the page (like a "Contents" box).


 * Is there a way to repeat a "header-row" periodically, so you don't have to go all the way back to the top of the page to check what the columns are? Or, maybe, you have to do this manually - stopping and re-starting the row??


 * How would I get a [source] ref to go to an external page, with all the sources on it?? (and then get back)
 * Maybe I just create a subpage?  But there still has to be a "back to where I came from" feature.  Or else a way to make that subpage appear in a separate tab/window.  Hmm, more to work out.
 * en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Index:Bulgarian has a clickable "Index"-bar with clickable links that take you to each letter, on a sub-page. But I don't understand how this works yet.  Code starts with:

{| class="buttonlinks" style="font-size:1.1em; text-align:center; border:0; width:95%; float:right;" |- | а б
 * OK, wiktionary.org does it with "raw code", no template, class, or anything.

=Combination?
Let's try a combined way to implement these (I wanted to put the definition into columns but I don't think it's a fair way to stretch the format! plus, it didn't work):

=UK English for Americans style:
CHUFFED adv. 1. Happy, as in, "I was really CHUFFED when I got promoted."

CIDER n. 1. Not apple juice, but a rather strong alcoholic drink made from apple juice.

CISTERN n. 1. A water tank found in most British houses. It is to be found in the attic, and feeds the hot water heater by gravity. This is why British bathrooms always have separate hot and cold taps (a system unknown in the US since about 1917). The hot and cold water systems operate at different pressures! It may also explain the singular lack of civilized showers in the UK.


 * The reason for separate bathroom taps may have a historical basis. In days of yore, CISTERNS were filled with collected rainwater, and by law, the MAINS water and the CISTERN water could not be allowed to mix.

CLADDING n. 1. Siding for a house.

would become:

баб а  (т.) (Родопи??) - баща, татко (Engl: father)

баб а йк/а, /о=баб а нко (т.) - баща, татко (Engl: father)

бабки - стари дребни монети, наниз (Engl: tiny old coins, used as decoration)

бабоч е рно, бабуч е рно - памучно (Engl: cotton)

баг не баша - не плаща данък за нещо

''This is too "expensive" of real estate to say "(Engl.)". If I were to use this style, I'd have to figure out a better way to do that. And - oops! No italicized Cyrillic т to indicate "Turkish"!''

= Try simple list, in columns:
баб а  (т.) [Родопи??] - баща, татко (En: father)

баб а йк/а, /о=баб а нко (т.) - баща, татко (En: father)
 * And can I indent under an entry if I want to? What if the text goes on long enough to wrap over to a new line?

бабки - стари дребни монети, наниз (En: tiny old coins, used as decoration)

бабоч е рно, бабуч е рно - памучно (En: cotton)

баг не баша - не плаща данък за нещо

Maybe this is pay dirt!!