[developers] '@' in orthography, tsdb profiles

[Joshua Crowgey]

Aha! All's working for me now.  Thanks you guys.  --Joshua

On 03/20/2013 04:58 PM, Michael Wayne Goodman wrote:
> 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@".
D'oh!
>
> 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
>>
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>> 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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