Re: VMs: JavaScript VMs analysis tool V0.1 now online...

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just some suggestions. Feel free to ignore them :-)

> * a configurable BITRANS clone (with several useful presets)

I have produced Bitrans scripts for variuous alphabets:
Curva, Gava, frogguy, FSG and JSA.
If you are interested in having a look to support other alphabets, these are 
zipped in the file: bit_tbls.zip accessible from the "counting commas" page 
at my site.

I remember that bitrans has some clever handling of ambiguous rules, like the 
case if "cc" is translated as "a" and "c" as "e". (This would be ambiguous, 
so bitrans does the longest translations first: "cc" is translated as "a" 
intead of "ee"). Does you implementation take care of the these issues?

> Once the query is complete, a "Done!" alert pops up, and the results should
> have been written to the output window you selected.

What about a "beep" instead of a pop up, saves 1 click.

> Each state displays
> its instance counts, its block counts (ie, the number of times the state
> was entered), the average length of each block, and its h0 and h1
> statistical entropy measures (I'll add in h2 & h3 later - it's not yet a
> complete MONKEY clone).

> BTW: the very first time you go to this webpage, there's likely to be an
> awkward pause (depending on the speed of your connection), while the 1MB of
> interlinear transcriptions get loaded into your browser's cache - however,
> once that's done, those data should persist in your browser's cache, so
> this pause should only (typically) be a one-off thing for most people.

Not sure what this is, but I noted that even the data remains in the cache the 
programme does not work anymore once I am offline.  I wondered if one could 
save the data file somewhere else, so there is no need to be online and press 
a button to update the data file, if there is a new one.

I also wondered if it would be too much trouble to implement the parsing of 
the evmt format (as in the interlinear file). Rene's VTT does this to select 
texts by page, quire, hand, author, etc.

> For example, h2 & h3 entropy stats
> aside, what would you like me to add?

What about the option of using the eva font in the result windows?

Cheers,

Gabriel

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