Archiphonemes - Revision history

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+[[Category:Documentation in English]]

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+[[Category:HFST]]
+[[Category:Writing dictionaries]]

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 <spectie> was thinking about {A} over ^A
 <Flammie> good
-<spectie> and worked out a nice argument for it (aside from pure aesthetics): other programs (e.g. morphological segmenters) parsing the output with {A} don't need to know about multicharacter symbols
+<spectie> and worked out a nice argument for it (aside from pure aesthetics):
+<spectie> other programs (e.g. morphological segmenters) parsing the output with {A} don't need to know about multicharacter symbols
 <spectie> compare:
 <spectie> foo{A}z{A}l

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+==Frequently asked questions==
+; Why use {C} and not ^C ?
+<pre>
+<spectie> was thinking about {A} over ^A
+<Flammie> good
+<spectie> and worked out a nice argument for it (aside from pure aesthetics): other programs (e.g. morphological segmenters) parsing the output with {A} don't need to know about multicharacter symbols
+<spectie> compare:
+<spectie> foo{A}z{A}l
+<spectie> foo^Az^Al
+<spectie> with the first you know where the symbol ends
+<spectie> in the second you do not know
+<spectie> it may be ^Az and ^Al or ^A z ^A l
+</pre>
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 * If the archiphoneme has a range of default surface forms (even if rarely subject to deletion), it should be written in upper case, e.g. <code>{A}</code>
 * If the archiphoneme is always deleted, it ''may'' consist of more than one character, e.g. <code>{dup}</code>. This is, however, advised against.
+==Common archiphonemes==
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+==Guidelines==
-==Standards for archiphonemes==
 * Archiphonemes should be a single character.

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 * Archiphonemes should be declared in the <code>Multichar_Symbols</code> section in the header of the file after the grammatical tags, with a comment giving their possible forms.
 * If the archiphoneme is subject to deletion, it should be written in lower case, e.g. <code>{s}</code>
-* If the archiphoneme has a range of default surface forms (even if occasionally subject to deletion), it should be written in upper case, e.g. <code>{A}</code>
+* If the archiphoneme has a range of default surface forms (even if rarely subject to deletion), it should be written in upper case, e.g. <code>{A}</code>
 * If the archiphoneme is always deleted, it ''may'' consist of more than one character, e.g. <code>{dup}</code>. This is, however, advised against.

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 * If the archiphoneme is subject to deletion, it should be written in lower case, e.g. <code>{s}</code>
 * If the archiphoneme is never deleted, it should be written in upper case, e.g. <code>{A}</code>
+* If the archiphoneme is always deleted, it ''may'' consist of more than one character, e.g. <code>{dup}</code>. This is however advised against.
 [[Category:Terminology]]