On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 10:59:49AM +, Philip Taylor wrote:
> i. e., break between any “ng” in the middle of a word.
>
>Not convinced, Arthur. Some would write (e.g.,) 北京人 (Běijīngrén) as
Ah, you’re right, I knew I should have looked more closely.
>
Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
i. e., break between any “ng” in the middle of a word.
Not convinced, Arthur. Some would write (e.g.,) 北京人 (Běijīngrén) as
one word, not two (cf. recent discussions on Pinyin in Language
Log). I would view the
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 11:02:48AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>To be
> serious: If patgen produces those patterns, I think they are *really*
> necessary.
Do you still have the source file somewhere?
Best,
>> Please elaborate.
>
> I think the patterns of the form 1nV and 1rV, for V any vowel, are
> useless because all the breaks they specify are already covered by
> the V1n and V1r patterns, and that all the 1gV could be replaced by
> just
>
> n1g
> n2g.
>
> i. e., break between
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 11:32:11PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> I still find it useful to have a level of abstraction, *in particular*
> when the rules are really simple.
I agree, and I think they should be expressed in terms of context-free
grammar, for example for Turkish
> vowels = %w{a â
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 08:57:21PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Please elaborate.
I think the patterns of the form 1nV and 1rV, for V any vowel, are
useless because all the breaks they specify are already covered by the
V1n and V1r patterns, and that all the 1gV could be replaced by just
>> > But I would create a simple script in any programming language
>> > (lua, ruby, python, ...) and generate two pattern files out of
>> > it.
>>
>> Not necessary – the stuff is so simple, and the number of syllables
>> is closed which means there won't be any changes except bug fixes.
>> A
On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 at 09:44, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > But I would create a simple script in any programming language (lua,
> > ruby, python, ...) and generate two pattern files out of it.
>
> Not necessary – the stuff is so simple, and the number of syllables is
> closed which means there
> Speaking of bugfixes, I am actually wondering about some patterns in
> the file.
Please elaborate.
Werner
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 09:43:57AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Not necessary – the stuff is so simple, and the number of syllables is
> closed which means there won't be any changes except bug fixes. A
> simple search and replace did the job in a few minutes; see attached
> file.
Thanks,
>> (1) Another file.
>>
>> This solution I rather dislike.
>
> This is what I would go for.
OK.
> But I would create a simple script in any programming language (lua,
> ruby, python, ...) and generate two pattern files out of it.
Not necessary – the stuff is so simple, and the number
>> (1) Another file.
>>
>> This solution I rather dislike.
>
> This is what I would go for.
>
> But I would create a simple script in any programming language (lua,
> ruby, python, ...) and generate two pattern files out of it.
As Mojca said, without the shadow of a doubt. Just use a
Dear Werner,
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 20:32, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I think it would be nice to extend `hyph-zh-latn-pinyin.tex' by
> covering Chinese syllables with tone marks – it's trivial to extend,
> say, pattern
>
> a1b
>
> with
>
> ā1b
> á1b
> ǎ1b
> à1b
>
> and ditto
Folks,
I think it would be nice to extend `hyph-zh-latn-pinyin.tex' by
covering Chinese syllables with tone marks – it's trivial to extend,
say, pattern
a1b
with
ā1b
á1b
ǎ1b
à1b
and ditto for all other patterns. However, such an extended file
would only be usable by XeTeX and
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