[lojban-beginners] Re: why won't jbofi'e parse this?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Wednesday 15 April 2009 14:11:25 Luke Bergen wrote:
> So, I was going to do a twitter update of:
> .aisai mi ba kelci la dy dy ry ja'e lo nu mi ba kanro
> which I think is something like "determination I'm going to play DDR to get
> healthy"
>
> But in checking it against jbofi'e first I find that it won't parse.  If I
> replace "dy dy ry" with another valid cmene it doesn't complain.  But I
> thought that "la" can take spaces like "la nicte cadzu" and "dy" and "ry"
> are valid lojban words are they not?
>
> I'm confused about what this won't parse.

"la" expects a following string of cmevla or selbri. "dy dy ry" is 
neither. "me dy dy ry" is a selbri, so "la me dy dy ry" is valid. "dy dy ry" 
is also a valid sumti, so you could say "mi kelci dy dy ry".

> Furthermore, it seems flukey about it, most of the time it just says
> "jbofi'e says" and then nothing.  Ocassionally (using the exact same
> string) it will say:
>
> --------------------
> SYNTAX ERROR IN TEXT
> --------------------
> Misparsed token :
>   lo [LE] (line 1, col 37)
> Latest successfully parsed tokens :
>   ja'e [BAI] (line 1, col 32)
>   MARKER : PRIVATE_START_BAI
>   ry [BY2] (line 1, col 29)
>   dy [BY2] (line 1, col 26)
>   dy [BY2] (line 1, col 23)
>   la [LA] (line 1, col 20)
>   kelci [BRIVLA] (line 1, col 14)
>   ba [PU] (line 1, col 11)
> --------------------
>
> which I can't quite figure out.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on this one?

What says "jbofi'e says"? I get the same error you do, but without "jbofi'e 
says". What version of jbofi'e do you have? Did you install it with apt-get 
(or aptitude or any front end to it) or compile from source?

I run "ldd `which jbofihe`" and get this:
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7d80000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7ee7000)
What do you get?

Pierre