AE meta/iast conversion

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This issue for comments related to the meta-line/iast conversion of ae.txt, the Cologne digitization of Apte Student's English-Sanskrit Dictionary.

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Very little IAST

In a prior update, AS codings were changed to IAST. There are only a few instances (< 100).

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Markup minimal

<div n="lb"/>

This line-break markup is the only markup added during this conversion. It is appropriate since the
lines of the digitization of AE correspond to the lines of the printed text.

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Previously mentioned enhancements

As a reminder, here is a collection of references to previously suggested improvements to AE

• AE headwords - English v. British spelling
• AE alternate headwords
  @Shalu411 has done some work on this whose installation needs to be finished.
  This same issue also broaches these subject of 'subheadwords'
• Change 'c,' to 'c.' in AE (abbreviation for Causal form) -- no issue reference available

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Complete hyphenations enhancement

There are about 9000 instances of Sanskrit words which are hyphenated at a line break; and about 500 other hyphenated words.

These need to be resolved (and marked with the <lbinfo> idea).

complete abbreviated instances

Consider the example under headword 'bristle':

b. ing would be much clearer without the abbreviation: bristling.

Note that the expansion is not simple string concatenation: 'bristle' + 'ing' NOT EQUAL 'bristling' --- the
'e' is dropped. So this is an interesting English NLP problem to solve.

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Sections of Digitization

The digitization of ae also includes the front matter of the text, and a short appendix of abbreviations:

      3:; TITLE
     37:; PREFACE to 3rd edition
     72:; PREFACE to 1st edition
    440:; PREFACE to 2nd edition
    456:; DIRECTIONS TO THE STUDENT
    548:; ENTRIES
  89379:; ABBREVIATIONS

Tooltips for general abbreviations

The abbreviations section has subsections:

• Grammatical Terms &c.
• Names of Works.

As with other dictionaries, the digitization utility would be increased by marking the abbreviations, and
constructing a table of expansions which could be used by displays to construct tooltips.

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The meta-line conversion is now installed at Cologne.