[developers] '@' in orthography, tsdb profiles

[Joshua Crowgey]

Thanks, Woodley, I edited the file to use '\s@' where '@' appeared 
within a field.  I got the same behavior as when I tried '\@'.

I'll check out the tool you recommend.

Thanks again.

--J

On 03/20/2013 04:35 PM, Woodley Packard wrote:
> Hi Joshua,
>
> The '@' character is used as a field separator in TSDB profiles.  I believe the correct escape sequence is '\s' (I'm sure Stephan will correct me if I'm wrong).
>
> There is a program named "mkprof" that is bundled with the "art" tool, which does what you are describing (i.e. takes plain lines of text and creates a tsdb profile out of them that can be used for parsing -- including the escaping):
>
> http://sweaglesw.org/linguistics/libtsdb/art.html
>
> Good luck,
> Woodley
>
> On Mar 20, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Joshua Crowgey wrote:
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>> Hello developers,
>>
>> I'm working on upgrading a script which takes a plain text formatted testsuite and emits [incr tsdb()] item files.
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>> One of the testsuites used an ascii transliteration for Old English. Specifically, schwa was represented as '@'.
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>> I tried escaping the schwa with a backslash where it appeared in the orthography line.  Upon attempting to create an instance using this file, I got 'error processing tsdb(1) podium event'.
>>
>> If I refresh all tsdb, I find the profile created but upon trying to browse items, I get 'no data in path/to/testsuite/ matching TSDB Query'.
>>
>> If I replace the "\@"s with "E", all loads without a problem.
>>
>> What's the right thing to do with '@'s inside a TSDB field?
>>
>> --Joshua
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