table exactly and I fear that it makes the ACIP->Tibetan converter code
a lot uglier. The TODO(DLC)[EWTS->Tibetan] comments littered throughout
are part of the ugliness; they point to the ugliness. If each were addressed,
cleanliness could perhaps be achieved.
I've largely forgotten exactly what this change does, but it attempts to
improve EWTS->Tibetan conversion. The lexer is probably really, really
primitive. I concentrate here on converting a single tsheg bar rather than
a whole document.
Eclipse was used during part of my journey here and some imports were
reorganized merely because I could. :)
(Eclipse was needed when the usual ant build failed to run a new test
EWTSTest. And I wanted its debugger.)
Next steps: end-to-end EWTS tests should bring many problems to light. Fix
those. Triage all the TODO comments.
I don't know that I'll ever really trust the implementation. The tests are
valuable, though. A clean implementation of EWTS->Tibetan in Jython
might hold enough interest for me; I'd like to learn Python.
One, TMW->EWTS gives dbas and dngas instead of dabs and dangs
because Chris Fynn's e-mail from today has dbas and dngas.
Second, Down with ACIPRules. Long live ACIPTraits. EWTS->Tibetan
conversion is closer still.
conversion. The tag 'TODO(DLC)[EWTS->Tibetan]' exists all over the
place. EWTS->Tibetan isn't here yet; lexing isn't here yet; this is
mainly a refactoring so that the ACIP->Tibetan code can be reused to
do EWTS->Tibetan.
I'm committing this because tests pass (it shouldn't be breaking
anything), because I want a checkpoint, and because the laptop this
sandbox was on isn't my preferred development environment.
stacks that use full-form subjoined RA and YA consonants.
ACIP {RVA} was converting to the wrong things.
The TMW for {RVA} was converting to the wrong ACIP.
Checked all the 'DLC' tags in the ttt (ACIP->Tibetan) package.
This mechanism is for Andres (who noticed KAsh=>K+sh in practice) and power users only, and not power users until I document the thing outside of the source code.
The code would be cleaner if I could bear to delete my terrible hack. Maybe in a month, when I don't feel so dumb for coding it up in the first place.
The correct solution for such things is to give the ACIP->Tibetan converters a pre-filter mechanism. This would be before the lexer or part of the lexer (maybe you only want to filter tsheg bars), and it would allow the end user to specify things like "s/SNYAM'AM/S+NYAMA'AMA/g".
dchandler