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Darren wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:05 pm

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:03 pm While trying to implement some new features, I realised I’m confused by this statement:

Darren wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:03 pm I always end up having to make a category "X" which is just all the left over shit like ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ˈ θ and never gets used for anything.

If those graphemes never get used for anything, then why do you need to include them in a category in the first place?

It's the category that never gets used. When rules produce new graphemes, sometimes it doesn't mind but other times it just gives a bunch of question marks.

Hmm… surely it should only give question marks if there’s another category declaration afterwards? That was my intention, at least; if it’s not doing that, there’s a bug.

It's a minor inconvenience at worst.

Sure, but for the next version I’d like to focus on fixing these inconveniences (so I can finally release v1.0).

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:09 pm Hmm… surely it should only give question marks if there’s another category declaration afterwards?

I think you must be right. I guess I'm just too lazy to redefine all the categories at the same time.

Darren wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:39 pm

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:09 pm Hmm… surely it should only give question marks if there’s another category declaration afterwards?

I think you must be right. I guess I'm just too lazy to redefine all the categories at the same time.

As am I, which is why categories … end adds to the existing categories rather than clearing them (which would be new categories … end). I think the documentation is pretty clear on this point, though please let me know if it isn’t.

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:46 pm

Darren wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:39 pm

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:09 pm Hmm… surely it should only give question marks if there’s another category declaration afterwards?

I think you must be right. I guess I'm just too lazy to redefine all the categories at the same time.

As am I, which is why categories … end adds to the existing categories rather than clearing them (which would be new categories … end). I think the documentation is pretty clear on this point, though please let me know if it isn’t.

Hence why I use categories and add a junk category for all the new graphemes I've produced.

Darren wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:03 pm I always end up having to make a category "X" which is just all the left over shit like ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ˈ θ and never gets used for anything.

Development has slowed down a lot, but finally got around to fixing this! In the next release, you’ll be able to write extra ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ' θ at the beginning of the file, which will tell Brassica to recognise those multigraphs as ‘extra’ characters throughout all subsequent category redefinitions.

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 7:11 am

Darren wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:03 pm I always end up having to make a category "X" which is just all the left over shit like ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ˈ θ and never gets used for anything.

Development has slowed down a lot, but finally got around to fixing this! In the next release, you’ll be able to write extra ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ' θ at the beginning of the file, which will tell Brassica to recognise those multigraphs as ‘extra’ characters throughout all subsequent category redefinitions.

Aye that's great I'll give it a crack today

Darren wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 7:31 pm

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 7:11 am

Darren wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:03 pm I always end up having to make a category "X" which is just all the left over shit like ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ˈ θ and never gets used for anything.

Development has slowed down a lot, but finally got around to fixing this! In the next release, you’ll be able to write extra ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ' θ at the beginning of the file, which will tell Brassica to recognise those multigraphs as ‘extra’ characters throughout all subsequent category redefinitions.

Aye that's great I'll give it a crack today

Note that it’s not released yet!

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 4:10 am

Darren wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 7:31 pm

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 7:11 am

Development has slowed down a lot, but finally got around to fixing this! In the next release, you’ll be able to write extra ŋ kʷ pʷ ɨ ' θ at the beginning of the file, which will tell Brassica to recognise those multigraphs as ‘extra’ characters throughout all subsequent category redefinitions.

Aye that's great I'll give it a crack today

Note that it’s not released yet!

Ah right guess I'll have to wait

For reference, this is my list of what to get done for the next release, which with luck could finally get to v1.0.0:

• Figure out some better way of handling stress, tone etc.
• Improve Brassica’s understanding of MDF dictionary files
• Allow display of intermediate results
• Get the CLI closer to feature parity with the GUI
• Improve documentation

And some things which I’ve already implemented:

• extra directive (as just mentioned)
• Up to 10× speed improvement on desktop by parallelisation
• Allow recognising combining diacritics as forming automatic multigraphs
• Wildcards can now occur in the replacement of a rule