Greetings,

Regarding implementation of synonyms:

I checked and a few older collections have been implemented with synonyms being marked by separating words which are synonyms by commas. Also, they are included in just one entry. Eg: "to teach: lehren, unterrichten." This is also how they are implemented in kvtml. But, as they aren't being parsed, during written practice only the full string "lehren, unterrichten" is accepted.

But I think, later on it was decided that synonyms would be implemented by selecting the words in the synonym panel, in the editor. Eg: "lehren and unterrichten are synonyms". Also, synonyms are given an appropriate tag in the kvtml file. Eg: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256323 (the bug is fixed though, i guess. I checked.) But in this case, "to teach" has two entries, one for each synonym. This causes a problem because during the practice session, even though it accepts either of the synonyms as correct, it asks for the translation of the same word twice. Eg. 1/10 is "to teach" in written mode. I answer unterrichten. Parley tells me it is a synonym but correct. I move on to 2/10. But again the word is "to teach", and answer unterrichten again and it tells me it is correct. 

So the question is....how do you want to implement it? Using a synonym tag and feature as added, I'd suggest we just ask the word once, and accept either of the answers. Repeating it doesnt make any sense to me.

I'll happily implement it in a patch if we could discuss and find out the feature required. :)

Thanks,
Amarvir Singh