A Burst of Activity
Yesterday, I finished posting the verb pages I have to date in my local documents. So far I am up to the last or second to last chapter in Hart’s grammar. I have yet to do the Perfect, which will be the last page in Verbs. Yesterday, I added the Past Participles, the Continuative, the Infinitive, and Future Tenses. I have a system down now where I copy the text from my Open Office document and past them into the WYSIWYG editor here, then I copy the markup from the “Text” tab for the edit page into Text Wrangler (the text editor I use), and from there use regular expressions/grep to fix the tagging as well as do a few things by hand. I’m not sure if I mentioned this, but I previously had created a “san” CSS class so now I just have to wrap all Sanskrit in
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. I can even add the class to a table and all the table except the first header row will be set to the Sanskrit font. I also made a “headcol” class, which can be added to a table when the first column of the table is headers in English. This makes the tables look quite nice.
I’ve gotten it down so I’m pretty fast at cleaning up the markup using Text Wrangler, though I did spend a few hours on it yesterday. The sudden burst of energy in that regard came from the realization that having the information up on this site would make it easier for me to use than the OO documents. I can easily have several tabs open at one and easily switch between them, while searching is just as easy as in the OO docs. Also since I used online dictionaries, I can have all those tabs in the same window.
Speaking of which, I also updated the Other Resources page. I recently found the Sanskrit Heritage Dictionary, which is a very useful resource. I had already added that to the page, but I wanted to add a bibliography of print material and in the process beefed up the online links as well.
After I do the Perfect, I think I will peruse Whitney and grab a few things from him. I need to add adverbs, which I don’t think Hart covers; adjectives, which I can get from Hart; Suffixes that form nouns from verbs; Compounds, and probably several other topics. I’ll go through both books and see what I can find. As time permits of course …