From thinkit8@lycos.com Tue Sep 11 01:23:51 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 11 Sep 2001 08:23:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 25206 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2001 08:23:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 Sep 2001 08:23:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n7.groups.yahoo.com) (10.1.10.46) by mta1 with SMTP; 11 Sep 2001 08:23:48 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.10.30] by fj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 11 Sep 2001 08:23:48 -0000 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:23:44 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: kludging a lujvo expander Message-ID: <9nkhmg+1qto@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 960 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.5.121.32 From: thinkit8@lycos.com i looked at richard curnow's jbofi'e and the software on lojban.org's sight, and saw some useful utilities, but nothing that would quickly expand all the lujvos into gismu. so i'm going to try to kludge something together that rather simply examines a word to make sure it's not a cmavo or compound cmavo, then attempts to expand its compenent rafsi into gismu (or cmavo). i'll put some demarker so you can see where it's made the substition. ideally of course, i'd hack the parser or glosser directly to do this, but just doing it myself is actually easier (i don't even have a linux box running now). i think i'll end up doing it as a java function so i can put it into an applet or something later if need be. is anybody else interested in it? since it's so less than elegant i'll probably just end up using it for myself, but i'd be glad to give out the url if i end up putting it out as a web app, or if someone wants the code/bytecode.