I've been using SCA² and gen for my conlangs, and they've proven quite useful. However, I've encountered a few problems that hamper their usefulness.
- In gen, sometimes when I'm generating words using the "output table" function, the program breaks down and outputs a really long word. In the other modes, on the other hand, the program seems to work just fine. I've been testing it, and I've found that when I remove the rewrite rules, the problem goes away. Also, there are cases where the rewrite rules don't cause any problems at all. It appears that the problem happens when I try to replace single characters with digraphs, but it happens in other cases too, and I can't seem to find a real pattern. In any case, this is most definitely a bug.
- In SCA², I can't make even basic vowel harmony happen. When I try, the changes only end up applying to the first vowel that breaks the rules, but not anything beyond that. In fact, it seems to apply each rule one at a time, such that pikukupi comes out like "pikikupu" instead of the desired "pikikipi". I don't know if it's a bug, or if I'm just doing something wrong, but I'd kind of like to be able to do vowel harmony with this program, for a number of reasons.
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For gen:
C=ptkPTK
V=aeiou
P|ph
T|th
K|kh
CV
V
Set the output type to "Wordlist (as table)" to see the bug. You should get a really long word instead of a real table of words.
For SCA²:
F=ie
B=uo
C=ptkbdg
F/B/B(C)_
B/F/F(C)_
Test with words of 3 or more (C)V syllables. You should see failure to produce the expected vowel harmony, i.e. something like "pitoku" turning into "piteku" instead of "piteki".