Andhrabharati
commented
2 years ago A good topic came up at last!
Just have a look at andhrabharati.com/dictionary (Telugu section); search for 'a' and glance through the results top-to-bottom; very many ideas can be gathered that were built-in since the beginning. Note esp. the how citations are handled differently from the meanings.
As I am NOT to make more comments now (which otherwise is my usual way), this is the best I can say now.
The only underlying principle, which I had been mentioning in my many earlier posts, is better comprehension (through readability) and good presentation- as appropriate to the content, is what made AB a popular dictionary site.
And of course, having the CLEANEST possible text (without errors) as the HIGHEST priority, through proofing [not through programmatical approach, which is only to check once at the end] the texts before hosting had always been the MAJOR STRENGTH here.
gasyoun
Ref - https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/csl-devanagari/issues/32#issuecomment-932799897, https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/csl-lnum/issues/2
There have been various references earlier. and also last two referred to above very recently.
Problem statement
If the authors of these dictionaries had infinite space and no constraint of data size or presentation, how would they present the content for easiest readability of users?
There has not been systematic study of all Cologne dictionaries on this front. Front matter and a cursory look of various entries would help in deriving this. Once we have exhaustively undertaken this exercise, necessary markup may be added, so that proper indentation and line breaks can be introduced programmatically.
This issue is a placeholder for this examination.