Hey all! Thanks for your attention! I am a linguist, and I've recently documented a BRAND NEW language (by NEW i mean 'ANCIENT'... but newly 'discovered'...). There are less than 1,000 people on the planet that speak this language, but they really want an indigenous literacy program, and to be able to read and write their own language. I'm living with them, and will be helping them to realize this dream.
That said... I'm using a syllable-based literacy lesson-plan, and have done lots of research and documentation, and figured out the order in which I need to teach the syllables in their language. Now, i have to put together little 'reading books' for them, and am having a bit of trouble... Basically, we'll teach a new 'syllable' at each class session/lesson, and then use that new syllable with the syllables taught in previous lessons to 'build new words' out of the syllables. We need to compose practice stories for our students to use their new skills on, but we can only use a limited number of NEW 'built words' in every little story, or we'll risk overwhelming our brand new readers. So I have an md document with a bunch of stories in it, separated by H2s: ##101 Me a. ##102 Me le. Me a. Me mala a. ##103 Hahe. Hahe mele mehe. Hahe hele mehe. Hahe ale mehe. ##104 Hele hahe. Mele hahe. Hahe le. Hahe a. and I want to be able to churn out something like: ##101 1. Me * a ##102 1. le * mala ##103 1. Hahe * mele * mehe * hele * ale ##104 1. Hele * hahe * Mele basically lists of all the 'new' material in each story, so that I can know which stories have too much 'new material, make appropriate tweaks, and then re-evaluate, until I keep all the 'new material' down at acceptable levels for each progressive lesson. Does that make sense? I've been doing something like this already with some grep by individually: * deleting all punctuation * turning all whitespace into line breaks * processing/deleting all duplicate lines (case-sensitive) and this has been pretty helpful, but its a pain to have to do this over and over again... Textfactories are perfect for this, right? WRONG. I think it is a bug or something, but upon 'Processing Duplicate Lines' in a text factory, I t looks like maybe the first instance of duplication gets completely deleted or something.... You can try it on my sample data... the 'Me' never makes it through the text factory, but running the operations individually DOES work. WTF? Please... hook me up with some wisdom on a killer way to do this? Thanks for any help you might be able to provide, guys... I'd greatly appreciate it! I'm running the latest version. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
