Re: Dictionary Based Scansion (iambic leaning)

[Will Dockery]

<else...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Monday, July 1, 2002 11:32:15 PM UTC-7, Tom Bishop wrote:
>> I thought I would describe the "Scan" feature of
>> my Composer page.
>>
>> Basically if you install the CMU dictionary, and
>> enable ActiveX controls (the "FileSystemObject"
>> is such a control that I need to access the dictionary)
>> ..then the scan will /work/.
>>
>> This is what it does..
>>
>> 1) Breaks the words up into lines.
>>
>> 2) Loops on the words in each line...
>>
>> ..each new line initializes the <iambic beat> variable
>> which is updated by each syllable.
>>
>> 3) Looks up the word
>>
>> ..each lookup could involve multiple variants.
>>
>> ..the first variant whose leading syllable stress
>> matches the <iambic beat> is chosen.
>>
>> ..at this point there are several special cases:
>>
>> A) a monosyllable word that /wants/ stress
>> is demoted to unstressed to satisfy
>> the <iambic beat> (shown as ~)
>>
>> B) secondary stresses (as marked in the dict)
>> are demoted to satisfy the <iambic beat>
>> (shown as: +)
>>
>> ..if the word cannot be coerced to iambic the line is
>> marked red from that point on.
>>
>> Clearly it must be easy to enter words into the dictionary,
>> so that it is easily expanded. (future)
>>
>> ..in cases of variants, the author should be able to specify
>> what variant they wish chosen, and have it remember. (future)

Thanks for posting...

[Will Dockery]

[Will Dockery]

[Will Dockery]

[Will Dockery]

[Will Dockery]