Re: [htdig-dev] Re: Accents, endings and chaining

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Dominique Arpin:
> I will install htdig 3.2 beta6 and I will try this patch.

Your french.aff file only defines altstringchar entries for tex, not
for latin1, so you shouldn't need the patch I mentioned.  As far as
I can tell, the patch won't make any difference for your affix file.

> here my config:
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> endings_affix_file:   ${lang_dir}/french.aff
> endings_dictionary:   ${lang_dir}/french.0
> endings_root2word_db: ${common_dir}/root2wordfr.db
> endings_word2root_db: ${common_dir}/word2rootfr.db
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> You can see a copy of the files on:
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> http://darwin.espacecourbe.com/~dominique/

The problem is in the french.0 file.  You'll need to add an entry:

acouph=E8ne/X

in the appropriate spot, and then run "htfuzzy endings".  Do the same
for any other word that doesn't pluralize properly, if the word doesn't
appear in french.0.

> thanks
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> > According to Lachlan Andrew:
> >> Greetings Dominique,
> >>
> >> I have tried to reproduce your problem (as I understood it), but
> >> can't.  Several possibilities come to mind:
> >>   1. You are (as Gilles suggested) relying on the fuzzy rule "accent=
s"
> >>      rather than explicitly entering the accent into the query.  In
> >>      this case, you are out of luck.
> >>   2. Your  endings_dictionary  file doesn't contain the words with
> >>      actual accents.
> >>   3. Your  endings_dictionary  has the accents, but encoded as
> >>      multi-byte unicode sequences.  Currently, ht://Dig doesn't
> >>      support unicode.
> >> In either case 2 or case 3, the solution is to replace the entries i=
n
> >> your  endings_dictionary  file with the single-byte latin1 (not
> >> unicode) accents.
> >>
> >> Do any of these cases apply?
> >
> > Your 3rd possibility brings to mind a 4th one I heard about a few yea=
rs
> > ago.  Some ispell affix files make use of "altstringchar" to define a
> > sequence of ASCII characters that can be used in the dictionary file =
to
> > represent an accented character.  If Dominique's francais.0 dictionar=
y
> > uses these, that could be the problem.
> >
> > There was a patch posted to the mailing list back in June of 2000, wh=
ich
> > added a hack to the endings algorithm to support these, for latin1 on=
ly.
> > The patch was for 3.1.5, so I don't know how well it'll work for 3.1.=
6 or
> > the 3.2 betas.  For some reason, it never made it into the patch arch=
ive,
> > but it's available here:
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/ht...@ht.../msg05248.html
> >
> > The only way to know for sure which of the 4 possibilities is the cor=
rect
> > one would be to look at the dictionary and affix file Dominique used =
to
> > generate the endings database.
> >
> > --
> > Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
> > Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.c=
a/
> > Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)
> >
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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)