interlinearise but ignore syllable breaks

[Jesse The Wind Wanderer]

Hi everyone,

Is there a way to make toolbox ignore or skip over certain characters
when passing interlinearising?
I have a set of texts that have syllable breaks indicated.
I've played with the interlinear tab on the database properties but
can't work it out.

Cheers

P.S. If it makes any difference I'm using text database with a few
custom fields.

Jesse

[Sebastian Drude]

Hello Jesse,

you could try to configure these characters as "ignore" characters, in
the language definitions.
That's no guarantee the parser will not be confused by them anyway,
but that is where I would try to configure things first.

Best, Sebastian

2009/9/22 Jesse The Wind Wanderer <the.wind...@gmail.com>:

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Is there a way to make toolbox ignore or skip over certain characters
> when passing interlinearising?

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| Sebastian Drude (Linguist)
| Sebasti...@fu-berlin.de & Sebasti...@googlemail.com
| http://www.germanistik.fu-berlin.de/il/pers/drude-en.html

[ToolboxSupport]

Hi, Jesse,

There really isn't any way to make the interlinear ignore something.
But I just realized that it is possible to manipulate the data to get
rid of the syllable breaks while interlinearizing.

You can make the first interlinear process a Lookup process which uses
a very trivial CC table... say the period is the syllable break, then
"." > ""
could be the entire CC table -- turning the period into nothing (not a
space). The next line could then parse the data and proceed as usual.

This Lookup process would specify *no* lexicons, so the data would
always "fail". That's when the CC table is applied. In the Lookup
dialog box, check "output word" and "apply CC table" only -- and
specify the CC table using the Browse button there.

(If you make this CC table, note that CC uses straight quotes, not the
"smart quotes" from Word. Use Wordpad or Notepad to create it.)

Toolbox Support


On Sep 22, 12:52 am, Jesse The Wind Wanderer