Jbofi'e version 0.37 is now available

[Richard Curnow <richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com>]

It's quite some time since version 0.36 appeared, so I decided it was
time to make public a new version with all the bug fixes + various
enhancements I've done since.  The changes are quite diverse - see the
release notes from the NEWS file at the bottom.

You can get it via the web-site

    http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/jbofihe/

Anyone wanting to stay up-to-date with the 'bleeding edge' can get the
current sources via CVS by setting their CVSROOT variable to

    :pserver:username@digitalkingdom.org:/home/cvs/jbofihe

*HOWEVER*, please note, this repository is read-only.  Any attempt to
commit changes will bounce and give you an error message.  The reason is
that I keep the master repository on my own PC, and the digitalkingdom
one is just a mirror of my local one.  If you make changes and want them
included, the best thing to do is to send me a patch by email and I'll
merge it in (I'll credit you in the comments.)

Some time ago I registered the jbofihe@yahoogroups.com mailing list.
I'm taking this opportunity to publicise it.  I'm hoping the list can be
used for topics relevant to jbofi'e which are not particularly relevant
to Lojban folks who don't use the software.  Topics like

- bug reporting/tracking
- new feature requests + requirements discussion
- coordinating development work
- announcements of interim & test releases

would come within its scope.  The subscription address is
jbofihe-subscribe@yahoogroups.com, for anyone wanting to join up.  (You
can do it via the yahoo web pages as well, of course.)

Cheers
Richard

The release notes follow :

New in version 0.37
===================

general
=======
- Include contributed Emacs Lisp functions for driving jbofi'e.
- Add fold markers in some of the source code for editing with VIM version 6

jbofi'e
=======
- Improve translations of vowels & other words followed by "bu".  (Only a
  partial list is included in the extradict file.)
- Fix crashes which occurred when tagging term places when the selbri was "jai"
  followed by something other than a brivla.
- Add entries for mu'e, pu'u, za'i, zu'o to the 'patterns' file for use in
  glossing unknown lujvo.
- Integrate recognition of cultural rafsi in lujvo into the ordinary state
  machine (so now 1 integrated state machine instead of 2 separate ones).
  Consequent reduction in table sizes.
- Recognize stage-3-like fu'ivla with >1 short rafsi before the hyphen and
  gloss accordingly if the word isn't in the dictionary 'as-is'.
- New more robust checking for bad cmene (containing la, doi etc)
- Fix bug : missing 'break' statements causing fall-through and hence bogus
  access on another branch of a union.
- Deprecate -g command option from man page.
- Fix glossing of the words for 10**X (the asterisks were treated as
  meta-characters by the glosser)
- Add support for experimental cmavo "xa'o" (selma'o ZAhO, opposite of "za'o")

vlatai
======
- For stage 3 fu'ivla, show forward slashes to split the rafsi prefix from the
  hyphen and the hyphen from the word tail.
- Recognize an extension to stage 3 fu'ivla, with >1 rafsi before the hyphen
- Cultural rafsi scanning improvement as for jbofi'e.  Remove -cr command line
  argument.
- Only show exit value of state machine in verbose (-v) mode.
- Detect and show bad cmene forms (la/lai/doi break-up)
- New option '-el' to show a lujvo broken into its component words.
- Fixed some more obscure faults with words containing patterns like "nytc" and
  "ntyc".

cmafi'e
=======
- Include contribution from Björn Gohla to output GNUStep property lists for
  the vocabulary found in the input.

jvocuhadju
==========
- Complete rewrite of the lujvo form checker used to detect tosmabru failures.
  The old one was completely broken.
- Added the script testing/jvocipra.pl, which couples jvocuhadju and vlatai in
  a back-to-back configuration for mutual testing.
- Add '-l' switch to try long rafsi even if a short one is available.
- Add '-a' switch to show all possible lujvo forms, not just the 8 most
  preferred ones.

lexer generator (dfasyn/*)
===============
- Add handling of 'state attributes' (to allow actions to be run when automaton
  is in DFA states corresponding to particular NFA states)
- Fix bug in NFA compressor, where algorithm could run off the end of an array.
- Fix bug in DFA compressor (was functionally correct but over-pessimistic
  about combining states)
- Improve command line options
- Add %{ ... %} text inclusion facility
- Allow exit and attribute table element types to be defined by input grammar
- Add 'early exit' capability for DFA states that will immediately exit (=>
  reduced table sizes + more state merging)
- Provide next_state functions in the output file.
- Renamed "dfasyn" with a view to it being made a project in its own right.


-- 
R.P.Curnow,Weston-super-Mare,UK  |lo samskiro'a cu simsa lo'e glefau
http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/ |isa'e le xamgu cu tcetcexau ije
richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com     |le xlali cu xagmau lenu nomei