On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 6:15 AM Flammie A Pirinen <flam...@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> I don't personally find apertium stream format readable, if I need to
> make sense of it I will anyways have to preprocess a lot, enough that
> I'd say apertium stream format need visualisation scripts to be
> readable. It's not very hard to have dev scripts for this. That being
> said, I don't find apertium stream format very machine readable either;
> with regexes you need tons of ëscapes and double escapes, with
> programming languages... well, you have to use regexes because it's not
> a standard format with readily available parsing library or a format
> neatly designed for python split() or c strtoks, or so... I'm fine with
> either special symbols or strings for whatever, as a purely personal
> preference I've been pro feature=value even before ud times but that's
> not important, as long as stuff is handlable with grep and sed without
> convoluted expressions it's all good, no? To that ggoal on the question
> of having known set of prefixes, I have always been of the opinion that
> any mature release-quality apertium stuff would follow the tags docu on
> the wiki[1], I would expect similar to be true for prefixes as well.
>

Regarding visualization, I've made a stream colorizer if anyone would
find such a thing useful: https://github.com/mr-martian/stream-color


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