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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Benct Philip Jonsson" <bpj@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
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