The author notes:<p>> 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<p>illustrated by the original's side-by-side entries for <i>615 Good</i> and <i>616 Evil</i>, seeing this as an unfortunate<p>> example of one of the many ways book design is actually getting less sophisticated over time.<p>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: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10681/pg10681-images.html#link619N" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10681/pg10681-images.ht...</a>. (Link is to a 10M html file).<p>(Though it seems things have moved on, since Evil is now #619.)<p>Surely there must be more programmatic electronic editions, though, given the highly tractable organisation of the book?
I once had a python side project, it parses the 1911 edition of Roget Thesaurus into memory and provides some queries.<p><a href="https://github.com/MoserMichael/roget-thesaurus-parser">https://github.com/MoserMichael/roget-thesaurus-parser</a>
Where does the stereotype 'thesaurus = synonyms + antonyms' come from?<p>I'm not a native english speaker, and I never heard that idea besides in, I'd guess, Friends TV show.<p>I've used thesauruses since my childhood for exactly the task of looking up meanings, explanations, perhaps some etymology baked in.<p>For English, I always use WordNet, it is quite good and works offline on Android.<p>For my basic level of Chinese, Outliers dictionaries are so far the best I have found, but that's mainly due to my heavy reliance on the etymology provided there.<p>Well, I guess I got carried away a bit. Back to my question, where thesaurus=synonyms+antonyms comes from?
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").<p><a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/thesaurus/articles/difference" rel="nofollow">https://dictionary.cambridge.org/thesaurus/articles/differen...</a>