How to best deal with words that have multiple grammatical forms

[andrewtavis]

This issue is a discussion and implementation of a solution for what to do with words that have multiple forms in a given language. An example is the German word Zeit, which has the english meaning of since and time. This means that this word is both a preposition and a noun. Obviously a distinction comes with nouns being capitalized in German, but then it's again ambiguous at the start of a sentence.

Currently preposition annotation happens after noun annotation, so typing Zeit leads to (Gen) Zeit, but then the noun coloration is triggered and the commandBar output is red. This thus gives all the needed meaning to the user, but then the noun gender is lost to color blind users. Ideally both meanings of the word would be displayed to the user.

A general idea would be to display first the prepositional case and then the noun gender in the command bar separated by a slash and spaces to assure that the user marks the distinction. The output would thus be (Gen / F) Zeit with F and Zeit being red.

• This issue is related to and blocked by Color noun genders when multiple are applicable #75 as coloration would need to be applied to the noun part of the output, but not the preposition part

[andrewtavis]

This issue was closed by d6c4ed9 for the design spring in #112. Noun and preposition annotation is now done via symbols that can be put next to each other. Furthermore, preposition cases are rectangles and noun genders are squares to make the difference for the user apparent.