For the sake of precisity:
SFX D y ied [^aeiou]y
Field
-----
1 SFX - indicates this is a suffix
2 D - is the name of the character which represents this affix
3 y - the string of chars to strip off before adding affix
(a 0 here indicates the NULL string)
4 ied - the string of affix characters to add
(a 0 here indicates the NULL string)
5 [^aeiou]y - the conditions which must be met before the affix
can be applied
The third field indicates the **string of chars** to strip (not just
a single character).
Goran asks for a character like '?' that would cause to strip
any character, or ?a? would mean strip all 3 character
strings, whose middle character is an 'a'.
The only problem I can see is, if any language uses ? as a
regular character. Maybe that could be handled with some REP mechanism.
I do not quite understand, why this request. Affix handling is
optimized, and even big affix files, much bigger than ever required for
slavic or german languages are handled now with a reasonable speed.
>>
I am sorry I misunderstood. Your request is a good one. Since 0 means
nothing, it is reasonable to suggest a number as the number of chars to
be dropped.
It would reduce the number of items in the new Dutch affix file as well.
<<
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org
