jzohrab
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10 months ago In this case I would recommend that you use parent terms, even though I understand that you're currently restricting your usage of that to declensions and conjugations. I actually have the same situation in Spanish, and you'd have the same case in German which joins words together -- in some senses, these different parts are "parents" that come together to make the term. Try it for a while, and see how it feels. (One idea I keep in mind with Lute: the notes for terms are for me to help with my reading, they're not a real "dictionary", if that makes sense. I treat many of the fields as my own scratch pad.)
However, with that said, I can see how adding some kind of "component words" feature makes more general sense, outside of a "parent" feature. In fact, there have been many cases where I've wanted some method of grouping things, for example, opposites ("large" is opposite of "small", "grande" of "pequeño"), or of similar things (e.g. "derribar", "derumbar", etc).
This also ties into the idea of "word families" which feels like a really important idea for reading -- e.g., in English, all of these are related: "responsible", "irresponsible", "responsibility", or "agree", "agreement", "disagree", etc. Maybe that "word family" idea would also work for this, where "horse", "man", and "horseman", and "horsemen" are all one type of word family.
I don't want to overdesign this, or overcomplicate this from a user experience perspective. Adding too many fields to the form get messy, and your specific request feels like something that should somehow be generalized.
Unfortunately, I can't say when I'll get to this feature, but I think the idea overall is good, even if I've completely expanded the scope from your original request. :-) Limiting the scope instead to match your original request would potentially create more work in the long run, because I think that the wider scope stuff is necessary, and interesting. Until I or someone can think about the bigger solution, see if you can get parents to work for you. Thanks for the note!
RamSury
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Compound words are normally long words comprised of multiple shorter words. Currently term definitions for compound words (for eg. spaceships, horsemen etc) treat it like any other word. There is no indication to mark/show it as a compound (or its word-split) on hovering or in the term definition for the compound
Describe the solution you'd like
It would be useful to have a tickbox in the term definition to mark it as a compound word, and multiple fields to enter the split words that then link to the separated terms. Using the same examples mentioned above spaceships should link to space and ship if the word split is manually identified, similarly horsemen should point to horse and man.
Describe alternatives you've considered
I have considered using parents for this, but I use parents for the noun and verb stems (as the language I am using it for) has declensions and conjugations for each noun.
Additional context
None, but please ask if any questions.