[lojban] Re: Lojgloss 2.0

["Michael Turniansky" <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://pdf23ds.net/lojgloss/
>
> Well, I suppose this is a good spot to make a release. I guess the two
> biggest new things in this release are incremental parsing (so you can
> paste in a whole bunch of text and not overload the parser) and
> jbofi'e-style glossing. But it's much prettier than jbofi'e. And
> there's a bunch of smaller things, too.
>
> Unfortunately, this is (in all probability) a Windows-only release.
> I've rewritten all the javascript code in C#, which uses some library
> dependencies (the embedded web browser) that are quite unlikely to
> work with Mono unless I work on it. If it's possible at all, 2.0.1
> should support Mono, and thus Linux and OSX.
>
> On the other hand, the parser itself probably works fine on Linux.
> I've made a command line interface for it that could be quite handy.
>
> One interesting feature it offers is the ability to format a parse
> tree using an XML file to specify exactly how to output the tree. It's
> not infinitely flexible, but it might let you output to *some*
> interesting formats without requiring you to use a script. I might add
> direct support for XSL in the future, depending on how easy it is, but
> in the meantime if you want a customer output and you don't know how
> to program, you could try outputting in an XML format and using an XSL
> transform to get to your desired end format.
>
> Unfortunately, the rewrite in C# means that Lojgloss can no longer be
> configured as a web application (though the parser itself could be
> configured as a web service). I plan on eventually fixing this by
> cross-compiling my C# to javascript, but for the immediate future this
> is a download-run application.
>
> I have lots of new features planned, which are listed on the page, so
> check it out if you're interested.
>
> Chris Capel
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