Re: TECH: Sound Change program
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 25, 2005, 3:59 |
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* Paul Bennett said on 2005-03-25 03:22:22 +0100
> * David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
> > * Paul wrote:
> > > from > to / environment
> > >
> > > such as:
> > >
> > > d > t / _ #
>
> V=aeiou
Please allow the variables to be longer than one letter.
> Also, I'd need some kind of escape mechanism to distinguish named
> variables from text, since it's plausible that the user would want to use
> some horrible language like Klingon (or indeed CXS), where upper and lower
> case can mix within plain text.
Not to mention CXS using a lot of special characters that could be used
for a variable marker.
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 ¿
Maybe « and » to mark features, or instead of [ and ] for regexes?
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?
t.
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