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

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rene,

> This is _precisely_ one of the things that VTT does.
> It has no graphical user interface. It uses Unix-
> like command options (you know, with minus signs).
> One other thing it does is to select parts of the
> file. If you ever wondered why the interlinear
> file has stuff like $L=A or $Q=T in each page
> header, you know once you've looked at VTT.

Yes, this is what all the second column of checkboxes do in my tool. :-)

> There's one frivolous option in VTT, which is
> to create output in RTF, such that the Voynich
> text automatically appears in the EVA Hand 1 font
> and the annotations in Latin.

All in good time... :-)

> I wonder if your tool could be made to invoke
> VTT and Bitrans, rather than replacing them?

The problems my tool is trying to fix are those of accessibility and 
usability - how can anyone anywhere try out a new transcription or state 
machine on the interlinear text via a web-page, and without having to refer 
to a Unix man page?

The other practical issue is that of server (over)load - writing it 
completely in JavaScript ensures that the effective server load is 
minimised (as all the work gets done on the user's PC).

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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