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Display of search-only forms is confusing #1547

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birtles opened this issue Jan 8, 2024 · 1 comment
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Display of search-only forms is confusing #1547

birtles opened this issue Jan 8, 2024 · 1 comment

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birtles commented Jan 8, 2024

Reported by email:

I've noticed that when hovering over an sK or sk form with 10ten, the form is displayed with an "(irreg.)" tag next to it. Most sK/sk forms are not irregular. The tags are mainly used for things like uncommon 混ぜ書き forms, uncommon 御- or -無し forms, rare 旧字体, rare 異体字, etc. They're also used for kanji or kana forms that appear in "also written as ..." notes on individual senses. These forms aren't necessarily uncommon/rare.

I think the intention with search-only forms is that they're only for aiding lookups; they're not meant to be displayed in any circumstances. But for an extension like 10ten, I can see why you might want the text under the cursor to match one of the forms displayed in the pop-up. I'm not sure what the best way to handle this is but I've attached a crude mockup of one idea I had. You can probably think of something better.

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birtles commented Jan 9, 2024

After discussing with the reporter, I'm considering something similar to the mockup but without the arrow and simply showing the matched form as "御久しぶり (matched)" above the entry in smaller, feint text.

It might even be possible that we could integrate this with some of the ideas for showing the conjugation information described in #1237 but I'm not sure.

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