check errors and adding own tags

[Leonid Spektor]

Rasmus,


1. The form "bird+house-s" is incorrect. If the manual says otherwise, then it needs to be changed. The correct form is "bird+houses".

2. We don't support this feature at this time. We are in a process of implementing a generic "@x:" tag which will allow users to specify anything they want to. Your example below, then will look like "Toronto at x:geo". This should be implemented in a day or so.

3. We discourage people from editing the "depfile.cut". Adding anything to that file without additional changes to other supporting files and/or programs will cause problems with other programs like mor and post. We also no longer support the "depadd.cut" file. Check just simply ignores it.

We no longer distribute the "depadd.cut" file. You must have a very old installation of CLAN and new updates do not delete any old files present there.

Leonid.




On Jun 23, 2011, at 09:20, RSteinkrauss wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have some questions regarding checking files in CLAN and would be
> very happy if someone could help me. I am using the Win version from
> 30-Apr-2011.
> 
> 1. If understood the manual correctly, English compounds should be
> transcribed with a + sign. Also, plurals in compounds should be marked
> with a dash-s. However, when i run CHECK on my transcript, a form such
> as bird+house-s gives me an "undeclared suffix" error. Same with bird
> +house-s at s if it is a codeswitch in an otherwise German text.
> 
> 2. We would like to use some @-tags in our transcripts that are not
> specified in the manual (such as @geo for place names, e.g.
> Toronto at geo). I understand that this is not longer possible using a
> depadd-file, so I wondered if the way to go is to change the
> depfile.cut-file.
> 
> 3. Assuming that this was indeed what should be done, I changed the
> depfile.cut so that it would include the tags we need. After that,
> CHECK worked fine (with the exception of the errors described in
> question 1). However, if I now change the depadd.cut file again, CLAN
> will not react to the changes. E.g., if I remove a previously allowed
> @-tag such as @geo from my depadd.cut, CHECK will not complain when it
> encounters that tag in a transcipt. Strangely, that behaviour persists
> even after de- and reinstalling CLAN. I have set the lib path
> correctly, to a folder containing my changed depadd.cut. Also after
> changing the lib path back to the original depadd.cut that came /
> installed with CLAN, CHECK still allows my own @-tags.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea how to go about this? Any feedback would be
> greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Rasmus
> 
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