* Paul Bennett said on 2005-03-25 05:35:21 +0100
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:58:49 -0500, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> > Find some symbol not used in cxs and x-sampa at least, like
> > one of the following characters (latin1):
> > ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ ® ¯
> > ° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿
>
> I like § as a gut reaction. I wonder how easy it is to type...?
>
> > Maybe « and » to mark features, or instead of [ and ] for regexes?
>
> I like [] for features and () for regexes, with a descrambling pass
> before they're read for real. Maybe the French quotes would be good
> for the second-pass feature delimiters.
) is used in cxs.
> > If you're going to allow patterns of the form VARNAMEsomethingelse,
> > with no space after VARNAME, you might maybe repeat the
> > var-marker... ¦VAR¦ maybe?
>
> I think I like single-character variable names, to be honest. We'll
> see what happens.
Then you need to be able to add comments :) "What was the purpose of W
again? Oh, glides starting with /u/.".
t.