On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:36 PM, .alyn.post.
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 08:18:02PM -0500, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:
> pe'i there should be 3 ways of writing lojban:
>
After a brief brainstorm, I could support these three modes in my
parser should that be desireable.
> 1. Strict: the only characters allowed (barring alphabet shifts) are
> lojban characters.
The PEG grammar currently allows digits and some punctuation. I'd
need to add an immediate rule when these productions are matched to
reject those productions if strict mode was enable and forbidden
characters appear.
> 2. Visually mnemonic: characters such as quotation marks and parentheses
> etc. are allowed to make skimming the text easier; there is no need to
> standardize (although suggestions might be welcome) what means what
> because the characters will be ignored (treated as whitespace) by the
> parser, and so every spoken syllable will still need to be spelled
> out.
This is how the PEG grammar works now. I believe my parser allows
more punctuation than camxes, which is a trivial fix should that be
a problem.
> 3. Visual shorthand: It will develop anyway, so it's best to standardize
> it. e.g. {xu} can be *replaced* by a question mark, {to} and {to'o}
> might be *replaced* by left and right parentheses, etc. It would make
> sense to speak of {xubu}, the grapheme representing the cmavo {xu}
>
This would require defining what this visual shorthand was and
modifying any rule affected. It would also require not permitting
the defined shorthand punctuation to be whitespace.
-Alan
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