[Tshwanelex-l] Sort configuration: how to handle digraphs and trigraphs?

[David Joffe]

On 24 Apr 2012 at 18:45, Menan du Plessis wrote:

From:	Menan du Plessis <menanduple at fastmail.fm>
To:	"tshwanelex-l" <tshwanelex-l at mailman.yale.edu>
Date sent:	Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:45:02 +0200
Subject:	[Tshwanelex-l] Sort configuration: how to handle digraphs and
	trigraphs?

> 
> Dear fellow lexicographers,
> I really hope someone can help me configure the sorting system I need for my (Khoesan) 
> language. 
> I have been able to add the click symbols to the list used for the 'first pass' - but that part was 
> easy. The problem is that I need to include digraphs, such as th and ts, plus a trigraph kx' at 
> this stage. 
> I think I also need these for a 'second pass' - before the vowels are looked at?- because each 
> click may be expanded by a range of features typically represented by simple or compound 
> symbols such as h, g, n, x, ' and kx'.

Hmm, I don't understand what you mean here for the 'second pass - 
before the vowels are looked at'.