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Best practices for symbol values

Matthew Tylee Atkinson edited this page Jun 13, 2022 · 4 revisions

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Examples of best practices for symbol values

How many values to use?

For normal text, do not add a symbol value on each work, just the key words needed to give the main points of the sentence. hear is an https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-personalization-tf/2020Jun/att-0000/Bliss_sentences.pdf example page

More then one value needed

Example: Hebrew word: שמה (her name) Proposed value - data-symbol="15691 + 14707" (name+her)

There must be a space before and after the /+/.

If the sex is not important you can just use 15691. Also note that many of the references include conjugation.

2. Several words may map are represented by a single symbol

In cases were several words may map are represented by a single symbol, the order of values should reflect the order that the words would be spoken

3. Finding the right value

We suggest using Matts work on the tagged lexicon spreadsheet file at: http://www.symbolnet.org/bliss/BCI-AV_2018-04-16_(en+sv+no+fi+hu+de+nl+af+ru+lv+po+fr+es+pt+it+dk)+derivations+tag-sorted.zip

Matts work sheet to match the material at: http://www.symbolnet.org/bliss/bliss_template+1st100+YACR-freq1000-329wl.ods

4. Bliss rules

You may also wish to see see the bliss rules https://www.blissymbolics.org/images/bliss-rules.pdf

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