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DraqueT
Etymology Bug
Hi! Merry Christmas. Hope you've had a good one.
The issue I've had is when adding a new set of word, and setting etymology for them, I've found my hyphenated affixes delete randomly. Example: I have -dor using POS set as affixes. Adding words and setting etymology with say a noun word and an affix, I can add several, and then suddenly... the affix is gone. It happens with only the first words, say affixes set -ad, -am, or whatever, suddenly start disappearing. Then when I look back at the words made in their etymology. they've shifted to odd words.
Now I've tried to be very careful and I'm pretty damn sure I haven't been hitting the delete button. What "THINK" might be happening, is sometimes there's a bit of a delay or something and its editing over the first word on my list when I make a new word, instead of creating a new word. Which would explain why suddenly I have a word where the affix used to be when looking at etymology.
Anyway, thought I'd let you know. Love the program!
Oh! Almost forget. I'm a an Imac, Catalina.
Thank you for reporting a bug! I do have a few questions.
Are the words being deleted out of the lexicon screen? Or are the words being deleted from the etymology screen? Have you found a set of steps that always makes it happen, or does it seem to be random?
I have not yet been able to re-create the bug, but I will keep looking. I definitely want to fix this one. It sounds like a real headache.
The words are being deleted from the Lexicon. I'm trying to figure out the exact steps that make it happen, because it doesn't happen often, but when it does its a bit of a pain. I'll let you know if I find the exact steps as I'll be messing around with this today.
Well, I found the exact thing that makes it happen. Yesterday I put in some words via copy and paste and realized this morning that the font used in the other program was not the same as the I normally use so the mark I use for my glottal wasn't the same (single bar vs. single curly quote). I went into the program and started to edit each word with the wrong mark to the correct one, and that's when it started overwriting the words at the top of my lexicon list.
Hope this helps. Thanks for the great work on this program. I love it.
Would you mind sending the language file over for me to take a look at at [email protected]? I'm still havingtrouble reproducing this and I wonder if there's not something I'll be able to spot when I'm looking at it directly.
Sorry that PolyGlot isgiving you this grief, but I'll absolutely get it straightened out for you. ^^
Was not able to reproduce and was not able to inspect example language exhibiting bug, so I'm closing this for now. Please feel free to reopen if you're still experiencing this or can pin down how to recreate the bug.