Consider removing ‘Prefixes’ column

[jcrippen]

The ‘Prefixes’ column currently duplicates the information in the ‘Disjunct’ and ‘Conjunct’ = ‘Asp.’ + ’Subj.’ columns. It is useful in that it gives the prefix string as a single concise unit, but it takes up a lot of horizontal space. This isn’t a problem for most tables, but some of them – especially the u- + g̱- + g̱- tables – are near the limit of horizontal space on 8½″ × 11″ paper. Shrinking the font size in these tables would make things significantly harder to read given all the colouring. If the ‘Prefixes’ column is removed then there is a lot of additional horizontal space freed up for loosening the inter-column spacing in these worst-case tables.

If the ‘Prefixes’ column is removed, it could be useful to swap the order of contents in the ‘Disjunct’ column. Currently this is ‹form› followed by ‹description›, e.g. “x̱ʼe- ‘mouth’”. If the order was switched to e.g. “‘mouth’ x̱ʼe-” then this would put the prefix’s form immediately before the prefixes in the ‘Asp.’ column. This would make it easier to read the prefixes as a linear string.

If the ‘Disjunct’ column’s internal content order is swapped then it should probably be switched from left-aligned to right-aligned. The left edge of the tables would look ragged, but the distance between the prefix form and the content of the ‘Asp.’ column would always be the same which would make it easier to read the prefixes as a linear string.