Zompist Bboard Again

Is work still occurring on this? It's been ages since I've posted here, but I just wrote a quick note on the Brassica thread and thought I'd stop by...

Just to be clear, since I'm not a Linux person--is there a new Windows desktop release?

oh cripes yeah, just wading through the literature is going to be a mess...rabbit holes everywhere

Starting this here because I have a couple of slim volumes on Athabaskan/Na-Dené in my possession and already have most of the Algonquian changes in my head for reference, so this is a chance to learn something new. More anon.

I think we should think a little bit about how sound changes should be represented. I'm going to go ahead and say that I don't think everything should be normalized to IPA—for languages in the Americas, for example, Americanist transcription is fine and (IMO) looks a lot better; Indo-European's in-...

I think we should think a little bit about how sound changes should be represented. I'm going to go ahead and say that I don't think everything should be normalized to IPA—for languages in the Americas, for example, Americanist transcription is fine and (IMO) looks a lot better; Indo-European's in-h...

I see there have been updates to the branch on Github--are we getting a desktop release with a font selector soon? Would be really, really useful.

I'll take Algic or at least Algonquian.

Also, some measure of allowing for "original research" might not be the worst idea...the problem is that to really know the context for a historical phonology paper you do want to have some measure of familiarity with the language or its family.

I can try to throw this onto my list of projects, but 'by year's end' may be ambitious.

IIRC from when I was playing with building desktop-side applications, getting the program to add buttons in real-time is a hassle, so maybe there should be a drop-down menu under or next to the 'Apply' button that has the child tags. It shouldn’t be terribly hard… I’m already doing something not to...

IIRC from when I was playing with building desktop-side applications, getting the program to add buttons in real-time is a hassle, so maybe there should be a drop-down menu under or next to the 'Apply' button that has the child tags. You may have intuited that the post I made last night was somewhat...

Thanks muchly for the upcoming font selector! Another idea that occurred to me, since we're basically coding in a bespoke programming language, is the ability to group changes into higher-level blocks that can be toggled off and on. This could eventually be expanded to make it easier to work on fami...

(Incidentally, I don't want to sound petty--I've been making good use of Brassica and love it to bits--but it would be really useful if there were a way to increase the font size and perhaps even the font. Distinguishing acute accents or weird IPA characters can be rough, especially if you've got a ...

Hmm… could you share the precise rules, please? I've attached a screencap. Everything but the last two changes seem to work. The fourth item should come out [s̪ýìʎ]. You have some typos. The last few rules should be: ʉ́ᵝ j ʉ̀ᵝ / ýᵝ ì j / _ ; added in spaces ; skip a few... j / ʎ / _# ; match at end...

No, I’m quite sure you don’t want exSCA at all, because that’s a different SCA. In fact, it’s my old SCA which is now long-deprecated in favour of Brassica. How come you ended up there? It's linked on the main page for Brassica … Sorry, but I can’t any such link. Could you please share a screenshot...

The readme says "exSCA version 2.1.1"...ah, wait,hmm. You are quite sure I want the online version that says version 0.0.2, not the desktop version linked therein? No, I’m quite sure you don’t want exSCA at all, because that’s a different SCA. In fact, it’s my old SCA which is now long-de...

I'm popping by after an absence of lord knows how long to say that I'm overjoyed that this exists. Is there a reason that whitespaces seem to break the desktop version? It took me quite a while to work out that that was going on given the readme. E.g., if the Categories box has K=kg Č=čĵ and the So...

David Wootton's Bad Medicine is a very good read on this question and argues that the delay in medical modernity, compared to technological modernity, was basically a fluke--the only real prerequisite for Pasteur was Leeuwenhoek, but a gap of two centuries separates them. Note, however, that it woul...

I'm popping by after an absence of lord knows how long to say that I'm overjoyed that this exists. Is there a reason that whitespaces seem to break the desktop version? It took me quite a while to work out that that was going on given the readme. E.g., if the Categories box has K=kg Č=čĵ and the Sou...

Is anyone actually maintaining the Index Diachronica?