[developers] '@' in orthography, tsdb profiles

[Michael Wayne Goodman]

I dug up an old email where Stephan explained some escape conventions:

@ : \s
newline : \n
\ : \\

I updated http://moin.delph-in.net/ItsdbReference with this information.

Joshua, note that the escape convention is "\s", not "\s@".

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Joshua Crowgey <jcrowgey at uw.edu> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>> Hello developers,
>>>
>>> I'm working on upgrading a script which takes a plain text formatted
>>> testsuite and emits [incr tsdb()] item files.
>>>
>>> One of the testsuites used an ascii transliteration for Old English.
>>> Specifically, schwa was represented as '@'.
>>>
>>> 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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