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From: Bernard B. <ber...@gm...> - 2020-07-23 15:08:23
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Dear Anthony, Back to the discussion of "bullets". Now in grammar files saved by the PHP interface, bullets are replaced by "•" which makes no difference to the display on a web page. An example is the attached "-gr.acceleration" Nonetheless, its compilation produces an error telling the "bull;" is not a licit variable or whatever. So, the solution would be to identify "•" properly and map it to the same token as "•" Unfortunately we have no 7-bit equivalent in BP, unlike "…" which now gets automatically converted as "_rest" rather than "…". Indeed, if you program the conversion of "•" you may be able to convert "…" as well! Bernard Bernard Bel wrote on 13/07/2020 16:22: > The high-ascii encoding problem concerns only two signs: > > ‘•’ = ascii #149 = • > ‘…’ = ascii #133 = … > > (Source: https://assiste.com/SEO_Webmaster/Tables_ascii_unicode_utf_8.html) > > The first one is the period used in “period notation”. It is an > alternate glyph for a plain period ‘.’ and both work identically in the > old BP. Therefore it wouldn't be a problem to get periods instead of > bullets in console or file outputs. I switched to bullets when my > eyesight started declining. ;-) > > I am attaching a copy of “-gr.acceleration” in clean UTF8 format > containing a bullet on line gram#[2]. You may use it to check that the > grammar is read and processed correctly with respect to the bullet and > to end of lines (see below). > > The second is an undetermined rest. It also has a low-ascii equivalent: > “_rest”. Many users are not familiar with typing ‘…’ so they have a > tendency to type ‘...’ which is equivalent in publications but not in BP > since it represents 3 periods, that is ‘•••’. |
