Any time something's not working as you expect, you should write to [email protected]. They actually write back. (And in this case I'd include a sample data file and your Text Factory.)
--Kerri On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Christopher Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]. > -- 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].
