Lojban In General

Posted by pdf23ds on Mon 23 of Jun, 2008 06:51 GMT posts: 143

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
--
"What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it
like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?"
-- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet)

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> 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
> --
> "What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it
> like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?"
> — The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet)
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org
> with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if
> you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.
>
>

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