[HN Gopher] A library of words: Discovering Roget's Thesaurus (2...
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       A library of words: Discovering Roget's Thesaurus (2023)
        
       Author : NaOH
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2025-05-15 17:46 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | 5- wrote:
       | the cambridge dictionary thesaurus has a similar organisation and
       | i always thought it was a unique quirk (further promulgated by
       | the mobile version calling it "smart thesaurus").
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       | https://dictionary.cambridge.org/thesaurus/articles/differen...
        
       | ttctciyf wrote:
       | The author notes:
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       | > since around 1962, publishers have abandoned the side-by-side
       | layout of opposing categories which Roget insisted on as a visual
       | representation of the opposing ideas
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       | illustrated by the original's side-by-side entries for _615 Good_
       | and _616 Evil_ , seeing this as an unfortunate
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       | > example of one of the many ways book design is actually getting
       | less sophisticated over time.
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       | It appears the Gutenberg project also see value in preserving the
       | two columns, at least in their html edition, as can be seen in
       | their rendition of the same passages:
       | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10681/pg10681-images.ht....
       | (Link is to a 10M html file).
       | 
       | (Though it seems things have moved on, since Evil is now #619.)
       | 
       | Surely there must be more programmatic electronic editions,
       | though, given the highly tractable organisation of the book?
        
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