Chatter error messages

[Brian MacWhinney]

Kevin,
    Chatter doesn't provide detail on the meanings of messages, but it does a good job of
delineating exactly the line and column of the error, which usually does the trick.  The problem
in your first example is that you have placed a pause before the retrace mark and the order
should be reversed because the retrace mark is intended to apply to the material retraced.  
   In the case of the second error, you have bumped into a very new "feature" in CHAT that now expects
one more vertical bar line at the end of the @ID field.  This was added because a lot of people wanted
to have a "custom"  field in the @ID line.  I added this to every file in the database last week.  If you have
a very current version of CLAN, it will also add the right number of vertical bars.
    However, this is super easy to fix.  Just replace the final two vertical bars with three and you should
be okay.
     I have updated the manual to include this information, but it was very recent and there is no way you
would have really known about this.  Sorry.

-- Brian MacW
 
On Mar 15, 2012, at 11:19 AM, Kevin Donnelly wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Is there any documentation on Chatter errors beyond this page:
> http://talkbank.org/software/chatter.html
> Help -> Online Documentation doesn't go anywhere on my (Linux) system. :-(
> 
> In particular, I'm getting
> line 697, column 18: parser: no viable alternative at input '[///]'
> in relation to this line:
> *CON:	yn yr (..) [///] uh briodais i (y)n y flwyddyn pedwar_deg wyth <adeg 
> hyn> [?] .
> though the next line:
> *SAN:	uh pum_deg [//] chwe_deg wyth ?
> has no bother with the [//].
> 
> I'm also getting:
> line 4, column 49: parser: missing ID_CUSTOM_FIELD_VERTBAR_TO_DEFAULT at '\n'
> in relation to this ID line:
> @ID:	cym, spa|Patagonia|SAN|56;|female|||Adult||
> which I'm assuming is something to do with a pipe character being in the wrong 
> place, even though it seems to match OK with the example in the CHAT manual 
> (p28):
> @ID: en|macwhinney|CHI|2;10.10||||Target_Child||
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
> Pob hwyl / Best wishes
> 
> Kevin Donnelly
> kevindonnelly.org.uk
> 
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