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dchandler
39451d8879 Fixed a couple of small bugs.
Only 250 errors are reported now; this is important if you try to
convert an English document.
2003-08-17 02:12:49 +00:00
dchandler
4581a2d8ab Improved the ACIP scanner (the part of the converter that says, "This
is a correction, that's a comment, this is Tibetan, that's Latin
(English), that's Tibetan inter-tsheg-bar punctuation, etc.)  It now
accepts more real-world ACIP files, i.e. it handles illegal
constructs.  The error checking is more user-friendly.  There are now
tests.

Added some tsheg bars that Peter E. Hauer of Linguasoft sent me to the
tests.  Many thanks, Peter.  I still need to implement rules that say,
"This is not Tibetan, it must be Sanskrit, because that letter doesn't
take a MA prefix."
2003-08-17 01:45:55 +00:00
dchandler
0b91ed0beb I've improved the ACIP tsheg bar scanner to handle a lot of illegal
constructions that occur in practice.
2003-08-16 16:13:53 +00:00
dchandler
2b59d9838d I now have a function that takes as input a String of ACIP and breaks
up that String into tsheg bars, punctuation, etc., while finding
errors.  I've tested it some, but I'm not yet committing the tests.

Next step: a converter that takes an ACIP file as input and outputs
TMW+Latin.
2003-08-14 05:10:47 +00:00
dchandler
57f506384f The ACIP->Tibetan converter now has perfect low-level functionality,
and it has the capability to produce error messages and warnings that
make sense to the user.  One can now get the correct parse, if one
exists, for an ACIP tsheg bar.

One could even feed in ACIP and get a list of warnings about things as
innocuous as PADMA, which a dumb converter would have trouble with.
One could then turn ACIP into well-behaved ACIP for that dumb
converter, if you really wanted to.

Still to do:

o Scan ACIP files into tsheg bars.
o Produce TMW/Latin (from which you can get Unicode, etc.).
o E-mail the illegal tsheg bars to the ACIP fellows so they can fix
  the affected documents (most of the Kangyur has unparseable
  creatures).
2003-08-12 04:13:11 +00:00
dchandler
e21d3774a9 Added an unfinished ACIP->Tibetan converter. Once it works properly
for ACIP, it'll easily be made to work as a perfect EWTS
Wylie->Tibetan converter.  It has an extensive suite of tests for the
existing functionality.
2003-08-10 19:30:07 +00:00