Can you copy transliterated lexical forms?

[mortenjensen]

Hi,

I enjoy the possibility of copying transliterated forms, which you can do by the handy shortcut: ctrl+cmd+t.

However, can you also copy the lexical forms transliterated? I have not been able to work that out. That would be a wonderful thing to, since you often need to cite the lexeme and not the inflected form.

Morten

 

BTW: What do you guys do for scholarly purposes: cite transliterated or original forms? I find myself doing the latter for Greek texts and the former for Hebrew texts. In scholarly books, you find both ways. Does anyone know of a discussion of this issue that could help clarify what is supposedly the best thing to do?

[David Lang]

There's no one-step process for copying the transliterated lexical form of a selected word, but you can do the following:

 

1. Triple-click the word to look up its lexical form in your default Greek or Hebrew lexicon, then select the lexical form in the lexicon and Copy As Transliteration.

 

2. Select the word in the text and then choose Copy As Instant Details. This will give you everything that appears in the Instant Details box, such as inflected form (in original language and transliteration), lexical form (in original language and transliteration), and parsing. You would then need to delete all the extra information once you pasted it into your document.

 

3. If you do this a lot, you could go into the Instant Details settings in the Preferences and uncheck everything except English transliteration. That way, when you choose Copy As Instant Details you would get nothing but the transliteration.

 

Of course, the downside of this approach is that you make the Instant Details box much less useful.

 

Note: It appears that when you uncheck everything except English transliteration, you get the English transliteration of the lexical form rather than the inflected form. That's not what I'd expect, and I wonder if that should be changed, but it appears that there IS a one-step way to do what you're asking.

[mortenjensen]

Thanks, David - suggestion no1 was just was I was looking for!

Morten