kaenif wrote:A problem I encountered is that the font is not right. The set font of my Windows is a Chinese font and it does not support IPA or other special characters (not even greek alphabet). I could find no way to change it.
The problem with not being able to display certain special characters is something that happens to me in Windows too, but I don't know why as it works fine in linux and doesn't appear to be a problem with Qt itself. I don't know a whole lot about fonts, but I'll play around with stuff and see if I can fix it or make the fonts user-specifyable, or something.
Anyway, I've uploaded version 0.2; just redownload from the executable links in the first post.
changelog wrote:- Suprasegmentals tab added.
- Phonotactics tab added.
- A couple buttons on the words tab are now properly disabled in circumstances
where clicking them would cause a crash.
- Phonological representations are now loaded correctly.
- Problem where changing the spelling of a word did not change its place in the
list was fixed.
- It is now possible to specify an alphabetic order for phonemes.
- Savefile format is now in XML.
There's a lot of new stuff on the Dictionary Management tab, but none of it is functional yet. It will all be implemented in future 0.2 releases, and I also intend to try and work with Zelos to get a word-generator as well. The lovely new icon is by Zelos as well. When you load the savefiles you made with 0.1, make sure to load them as "Version 0.1" and not "Current Version (0.2)". Loading 0.1 files as 0.2 files results in the file not loading; loading 0.2 files as 0.1 files results in crashing. Don't do it.
Documentation for New Suprasegmentals and Phonotactics Tabs
(I wound up making some design decisions that are possibly not intuitive, so I am explaining it all here.)
1. Phonotactics
You now have to organize your phoneme inventory into legal onsets, peaks, and codas, or the part the calculates the phonologies of words will not work. I think I explained how to do this upthread somewhere.
2. Suprasegmentals
There are two kinds of suprasegmentals (henceforth to be referred to as "supras" so that this post does not become 10 times longer than it needs to be): those that apply to phonemes and those that apply to syllables. If the supra applies to phonemes, you'll have to specify which phonemes it applies to, unless you choose to represent it in spelling by adding an accent, in which case it is assumed to only apply to /a e i o u y/ if present.
2.1 Spelling and Representation
"Spelling" refers to how the supra is spelled in the orthography (e.g. you might spell stress as an acute accent on the vowel, or length by doubling the letter). Representation is the way the supra is represented in the phonemic notation (e.g. you might represent stress by preceding the syllable with a ", or represent length by following the letter with a
. These work slightly differently depending on whether the supra applies to phonemes or syllables. If your supra applies to syllables, and you spell/represent it with a character preceding or following, that means that the character precedes or follows the entire syllable. However, if you choose to spell/represent it by adding an accent or doubling, the accent and/or doubling will apply only to the peak of the syllable.
2.2 Sanity Limits
There is a hard-coded limit of 3 syllable-level supras on any given syllable. Specifically, you are allowed to have one supra with a representation involving placing characters before the syllable, one supra with a representation involving placing characters after the syllable, and one supra with a representation involving doing something to the peak (i.e. accents or doubling). Regardless of how you spell the word, you can't add more than that, and you can't add more than that when manually setting the phonology either.
Technically there is no limit to the number of supras you can have on any given phoneme, but the parser will not be able to interpret multiple different accents on the same character, multiple characters preceding the same character, or multiple characters following the same character, so you will have to set them manually if that would be the case. It is also unable to include such things in the representation displayed, but it will still understand that those phonemes have all those supras.
2.3 Combinations of Accents and Doubling and Digraphs
If you want to add both a supra that's spelled with an accent and a supra that's spelled with doubling to the same letter, you will need to add the accent to both of the doubled letters, eg.:
<o> = /o/
<ó> = /"o/
<oo> = /o:/
<óó> = /"o:/
but
<óo> = /"o.o/
<oó> = /o."o/
Similarly, if you are marking a syllable-supra on a peak which consists of multiple phonemes, you'll have to apply the accent or the doubling to all characters in the peak:
<e> = /e/
<i> = /i/
<ei> = /ei/ (legal peak)
<éí> = /"ei/
<eeii> = /e:i:/
<ééíí> = /"e:i:/
The parser will not correctly interpret digraphs with accents on them:
<ea> = /i/
<éá> = /"e."a/
but it will correctly interpret doubled digraphs:
<ea> = /i/
<eaea> = /i:/
In any case, you can always just spell your words however you want and the set the correct phonology manually.
I'm probably not going to be doing a whole lot of modifications to the parser, but if it's not working as it should I will attempt to fix it. It's just that it was such a pain in the ass that I really don't want to have to rework it again.
