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Re: TECH: (-ish) Sound Change Applier programs

From:Peter Collier <petecollier@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 19:23
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From: "Benct Philip Jonsson" <bpj@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: TECH: (-ish) Sound Change Applier programs


> On 8.4.2008 Peter Collier wrote: >> I also had great hopes for Geoff's SCA - the >> possibility of dialects is very useful, but this SCA >> doesn't seem to want to work properly when it outputs >> to a text file, although output to the monitor seems >> to work fine (i.e. it seems to ignore rules when >> outputting to file, but not when it ouputs to >> screen!?) Unfortunately of course, I have BJP's > > That's an Indian political party, I'm BPJ! ;-)
Of course you are - sorry. But you knew what I meant ;)
> >> problem with screen output (it doesn't display any >> characters beyond the most basic ASCII set) and of >> course it can't be copied/saved to another location... >> > > Testing I found you can use standard file redirects to send monitor output > to a file, e.g.: > > python sc_apply.py -cspanish.sc -llatin.txt >spanish.txt > > which shouldn't affect the operation of the program, > although iyt might hang for other reasons. > > /BP
Yes... but for some reason the text output to the file isn't correct (i.e. hasn't obeyed all the applicable sc rules, whereas the on-screen output has!? I need to investigate further - last time I gave up in a tizzy. Never had a problem with this one hanging though, that was another (vsca?) P