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(Wouldn't a proper database back-end be nice -- enter the Pronunciation data in a Pronunciation field, and let a layout engine worry about where to put it. Ah, well.)

(... actually, does anyone know if Semantic Wiki or any similar extension might allow just that?)

I completely agree. Although I wonder if that wouldn't make contributions even harder -- currently someone can just hit Edit and make a simple change like fix a typo, and see the whole structure. A database backend would have to be quite complex to handle all the variations that are currently encoded in the textual interface.