Re: Non-greedy wildcard possible? (Long)

[Hans Aberg]

At 00:22 +0200 2004/05/20, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
>Yeah -- Gutenberg books was one of the early use cases I thought of.
>(I've been thinking about this sort of thing for years, even though
>I've only been working on Atox for a relatively short while.)

I think I was able to get a PDF from their site. So perhaps they have
started doing something on their own.

>I haven't really frozen the format language yet, and the
>implementation is a bit slow, so I'm not sure I'd recommend it for
>practical use yet (certainly not as a critical component); but it
>certainly works well enough for experimentation.

I think of things like if a book contains segments of chess in PGN or EPD.
Then one would want to extract and give proper translation of just those
portions. Then your current method might be too crude. -- Perhaps this
calls for adding a dynamic grammar portion. The more general such dynamic
grammars are, though, the more difficult they become for the user too use,
it seems.

  Hans Aberg