[developers] minor LKB code changes

[Berthold Crysmann]

Berthold Crysmann wrote:

> Ann Copestake wrote:
>
>> Summary:
>>
>> change to interface for `Apply all lex rules'.  info re algebra code
>>
>> Details:
>>
>> I have changed the interface function `Apply all lex rules' that can 
>> be called
>> from a display of a lexical entry.  Originally this produced separate 
>> windows
>> for each new feature structure - a very bad idea with a reasonable 
>> number of
>> lexical rules.
>
>> A couple of years ago, I changed it so it produced a summary of
>> applications in a window with the format `lex-d + rule (+ rule)* = 
>> new orth'.
>> It applied recursively and was controlled only by
>> *maximal-lex-rule-applications*.  But this is also a bad idea for 
>> grammars such
>> as the current ERG, which now have a rather large fanout of 
>> punctuation rules
>> given that *maximal-lex-rule-applications* is set to 7 by default (and I
>> believe that's fine for applying the morphology in the usual way).  
>> So the
>> interface now does not attempt recursive application, but the user 
>> can click on
>> a result and manually call `Apply all lex rules' again, and can 
>> repeat this as
>> often as desired.
>
Could this behaviour be toggled? Or configured by some variable? In the 
German grammar orthography
is done by a cascade of spelling rules, and I would like to be able to 
quickly check whether the intended form is amongst those generated... 
But, I can also imagine that I would not want all surface forms all the 
time...

Berthold