Luis Miguel Morillas has showed me how to use CSV files to render special characters correctly in Exhibit, so I care a lot less about Babel now. Thanks for responding, however. On Monday, September 9, 2024 at 10:13:40 PM UTC-5 Roger Cutler wrote:
> It's when I save the Excel file as tsv. If I save as DOS-text I lose the > special characters. If I save as Unicode-text I get the special characters > but Exhibit loses half the records. > > > On Monday, September 9, 2024 at 8:31:43 PM UTC-5 [email protected] > wrote: > >> when you tsv loses special characters, is that when you save the excel >> file as a tsv, or when you read the tsv into exhibit? >> On 9/9/2024 9:00 PM, Roger Cutler wrote: >> >> I care deeply about Babel. It is the only way that I have been able to >> interface between my Excel data and Exhibit displays. Other Excel->Jason >> converters create Jason that looks a lot like the Babel-created Jason, but >> make Exhibit croak. A workaround is to use tsv/txt files, but I then lose >> all special characters like in "Dvořák", which Babel handled just fine. >> >> I have been using Exhibit for a lot more than a decade for multiple >> purposes. I've had repeated trouble with forced version upgrades of >> Exhibit that have involved losing features, but losing Babel is really hard >> to recover from. >> >> On Tuesday, August 27, 2024 at 5:09:50 PM UTC-5 [email protected] >> wrote: >> >>> Babel has been down for a decade so hopefully nobody cares. If you rely >>> on painter, it is because you are using exhibit v2; you should migrate to >>> exhibit v3 which doesn't use it. Which I expect will be easier to do >>> while your e2 version is still working. >>> On 8/26/2024 4:40 PM, V. Alex Brennen wrote: >>> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> Over the next month we are planning to migrate the Simile Widgets server >>> to a new home in the AI Lab. >>> >>> As part of this migration process we are planning to retire and shutdown >>> some applications. Basically, we are shutting down the Java server side >>> applications and planning to continue to serve the Javascript for the >>> applications that you run on your own webpages. These Javascript based >>> applications include, for example, Timeline, Timeplot, Exhibit, etc. The >>> Java server side applications that are being retired include Babel, >>> Painter, etc. >>> >>> I expect that there will be no noticeable impact or downtime as part of >>> this migration process. It should be completely transparent to you. All of >>> your local Javascript based pages are expected to continue to work without >>> modifications. We will not be changing the domain from >>> simile-widgets.org. >>> >>> If anyone would like to run a local copy of the Java applications that >>> we are retiring, they are fully open source and links to the code >>> repositories can be found on their application pages on >>> simile-widgets.org. >>> >>> If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to >>> me at [email protected] and we can discuss them. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> V. Alex Brennen >>> [email protected] >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/simile-widgets/77d27488-d376-4083-bad5-4847d1d31f83n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/simile-widgets/77d27488-d376-4083-bad5-4847d1d31f83n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "SIMILE Widgets" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/simile-widgets/e0fec93e-3bd9-41b0-b5dc-028b118392a4n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/simile-widgets/e0fec93e-3bd9-41b0-b5dc-028b118392a4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/simile-widgets/4075d15a-1503-48b8-8a6f-319de73cb83bn%40googlegroups.com.
