Re: [Apertium-stuff] Compound words and dix format

2010-12-21 Thread Francis Tyers
Hi! The problem with this is that there are so many different metadix formats that it will be impossible to come up with one that covers them all. For example if I remember correctly how the alt works is different in es-pt and in oc-es. I think it was decided that it was desirable to have them

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Compound words and dix format

2010-12-21 Thread Francis Tyers
El dt 21 de 12 de 2010 a les 10:42 +, en/na Francis Tyers va escriure: Hi! ... Btw, thinking about metadix I have some probably unpopular ideas, that would preclude any standardisation. I think that maybe we should not have one format, but rather many _codified_ formats depending on the

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Compound words and dix format

2010-12-21 Thread Jacob Nordfalk
2010/12/21 Mikel Forcada m...@dlsi.ua.es Hi Apertiumers, Before any more patches to the dictionary format are made, a general agreement should be reached. Remember that we have different dialects of metadix and an unification would be desirable before fiddling anymore with dictionary

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Compound words and dix format

2010-12-21 Thread Jacob Nordfalk
2010/12/21 Francis Tyers fty...@prompsit.com El dt 21 de 12 de 2010 a les 10:42 +, en/na Francis Tyers va escriure: Hi! ... Btw, thinking about metadix I have some probably unpopular ideas, that would preclude any standardisation. I think that maybe we should not have one format,

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Compound words and dix format

2010-12-21 Thread Jacob Nordfalk
2010/12/21 Jacob Nordfalk jacob.nordf...@gmail.com 2010/12/21 Francis Tyers fty...@prompsit.com El dt 21 de 12 de 2010 a les 10:42 +, en/na Francis Tyers va escriure: Hi! ... Btw, thinking about metadix I have some probably unpopular ideas, that would preclude any

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Compound words and dix format

2010-12-21 Thread Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
Francis Tyers fty...@prompsit.com writes: Hi! The problem with this is that there are so many different metadix formats that it will be impossible to come up with one that covers them all. For example if I remember correctly how the alt works is different in es-pt and in oc-es. I think it

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Compound words and dix format

2010-12-21 Thread Francis Tyers
El dt 21 de 12 de 2010 a les 13:04 +0100, en/na Kevin Brubeck Unhammer va escriure: Francis Tyers fty...@prompsit.com writes: Hi! The problem with this is that there are so many different metadix formats that it will be impossible to come up with one that covers them all. For example

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Compound words and dix format

2010-12-21 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On 21 Dec 2010, at 10:42, Francis Tyers fty...@prompsit.com wrote: Hi! The problem with this is that there are so many different metadix formats that it will be impossible to come up with one that covers them all. For example if I remember correctly how the alt works is different in

Re: [Apertium-stuff] Compound words and dix format

2010-12-21 Thread Mikel Forcada
Hi all, a couple of comments: (1) I am not advocating the use of XSLT. In fact, I think it is not a good idea to bundle code (even if it is XSLT) with a language pair. I would rather have a compiler that understands directly the higher level descriptions collectively called metadixes; it