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DraqueT / PolyGlot

PolyGlot is a conlang construction toolkit.
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Suggestion: Grouping in the Phonology & Text #1086

Open BlueRayEnder opened 2 years ago

BlueRayEnder commented 2 years ago

New to the community, this software has been a great help. Thank you for making this! But I think there is one minor issue: Columns in the Phonology & Text tab can be a bit annoying to navigate when many pronunciation/romanization is added. As the title said, I think it would be nice if I could group characters into different groups. Details:

  1. User can add groups like consonants, vowels, consonant blend/cluster, polyphthongs.

  2. Able to collapse/expand the group so that items not related to what the user is finding can be hidden.

  3. Nested groups // groups inside a group, if possible

Not sure if anyone has suggested this or not, hope this suggestion is helpful :)

TrapinchO commented 2 years ago

Because of how it works woth regexes I would do it by making it visual only (internally it would be still one large "column"), probably by adding an extra column "group" or something similar, maybe with an extra menu (accessible from top of the tab) where you could modify the categories.

Also it might be nice for an option with pre-made group templates

DraqueT commented 2 years ago

Heyo, thanks for the suggestion and sorry to take so long to reply!

This is something I may consider in future versions of PolyGlot, but at the same time, it would have to be a new menu, rather than reordering within the existing menus. Order dictates the priority of transforms that happen which can affect the final outcome for the pronunciation/romanization.