In LEXUS the lexical entries are displayed in a word list. Once the structure of the lexicon has been created (and before you start to add lexical entries), we advise you to create a (preliminary) view of the items in the word list. You can define this view in right frame of the Schema and View Editor, select the List View tab. First you should decide which data categories from the structure of the lexicon should be used to represent the lexical entries in the word list. Usually the 'head word' data category is used for this. Drag the data category from the tree into the Preview window. When the Data Category is dropped and still highlighted in the structure on the left, you can change the properties of the display: font size, font type, color, bold, italic etc (See Figure 2.4)

In the same manner you can add more data categories to the List view and change their layout. Beware not to add too many data categories to the view, since this will create a chaotic view in the word list. Also be aware that the order in which you add data categories to the list view should follow the structure of the lexicon. E.g. If your structure consists of a lexeme with a sub structure, followed by a sub-entry with a sub structure and you wish to display the lexeme with its gloss and the sub entry with its gloss, insert them into the List View Preview window in the order: Lexeme, gloss, Sub Entry, sub entry gloss (a bit of try and error will give the best result).

Apart from showing the values of the data categories in the list, users can add additional text properties. For instance you might want to put a particular bit of information into brackets. For that the Text Properties windows can be used: Select the data category, which you have added previously to the List View and enter the required characters in the boxes. Users can add characters before and after the data category. Moreover, they can chose from two options: the characters can either use the formatting of the Data Category or keep their original style. In the example in Figure 2.5 the round brackets were added in such a way that they have the same color/style as the data category Lexeme, while the dashes keep their own formatting.

It is possible to indicate in the wordlist that there is multi-media attached to the lexical entry. To do this, you need to select the element to which you attach the mutli-media element for the word list view. Beware that the wordlist view will then also show the text of the element.