<div dir="ltr">Alec, <div><br></div><div>Can you look in your lkb/script file for the string tsdb? </div><div><br></div><div>Emily</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Alexander Sugar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sugara@uw.edu" target="_blank">sugara@uw.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I tried creating tsdb instances with and without having loaded the<br> grammar, and it didn't seem to make a difference. I certainly wouldn't<br> say I've done anything "creative well above the average" with my<br> grammar so far.<br> <br> - Alec<br> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br> On 9/11/14, Stephan Oepen <<a href="mailto:oe@ifi.uio.no">oe@ifi.uio.no</a>> wrote:<br> >> one thing we did differently<br> >> the time that things worked fine was that we didn't load the grammar<br> >> before trying to create tsdb instances.<br> ><br> > this makes me wonder whether the grammar maybe contains an assignment<br> > to *tsdb-home* or call to the (tsdb :home ...) function? when users<br> > are creative well above the average, it is possible for the [incr<br> > tsdb()] podium and the back-end lisp system to hold different values<br> > for this (crucial) variable; this would potentially lead to<br> > (seemingly) very surprising behavior.<br> ><br> > i would generally advise against setting [incr tsdb()] parameters as<br> > part of grammar code. per-user adjustments can be made in ‘.tsdbrc’<br> > (in the user home directory), e.g. calls to (tsdb :home ...), (tsdb<br> > :skeletons ...), and such should typically go there, in my view.<br> ><br> > best, oe<br> ><br> <br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Emily M. Bender<br>Associate Professor<br>Department of Linguistics<br>Check out CLMS on facebook! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/uwclma" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/uwclma</a><br> </div>