PREPROC 0.2.9

(c) Thomas Portele, IKP, University of Bonn, 4.7.2000

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LICENSE:

Copyright (C) 1998  Thomas Portele

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

Thomas Portele
tpo@ikp.uni-bonn.de http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/~tpo
IKP Poppelsdorfer Allee 47, D-53115 Bonn Germany

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OVERVIEW:

PREPROC was written by Thomas Portele as a flexible text preprocessing tool
for speech synthesis applications. PREPROC reads input from a text file,
performs some conversions and writes the result to a text file.

The conversions are done in three steps. In the first step a rule set
is used to determine whether a conversion should be applied to a token
(any string between spaces is a token). In the second step, a token
can be replaced by another token due to an exchange table (this is
mainly used for abbreviations). In the third step conversion functions
are applied to tokens marked in the first step as to be processed.

The rule set and the abbreviation list are loaded on run time (and
can be changed by special tags in the input stream). The
conversion functions, however, are hard-coded, and new functions
must be compiled in the program.

PREPROC currently reads from stdin and writes to stdout. Two 
parameters must appear in a call. The first one is the name
of the rule set, the second one the name of the abbreviation
list (if no second parameter is given, no token replacements
are performed).

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FILES:

This distribution contains the source code and the related Makefile.
The program is compiled by typing "make preproc". Also included
are the files "Rules.lst" with some preprocessing rules, and
"Hadifix.abk" with some abbreviations.

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INSTALLATION AND USAGE:

Please refer to the files INSTALL for installation and MANUAL for usage

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HISTORY:

10.02.1998   0.2   fixed a bug in the input routine
11.02.1998   0.2.1 fixed bugs in the functions
12.02.1998   0.2.2 fixed a bug if function returns string with length 0
13.02.1998   0.2.3 insert a NEWLINE after each .:?!
14.02.1998   0.2.4 correctet bug with leading blanks, % spaced
16.02.1998   0.2.5 corrected a subtle bug in keyword search before token
08.01.1999   0.2.6 included treatment of number mixture
05.07.1999   0.2.7 fixed a bug in abbreviation routine
21.02.2000   0.2.8 better treatment of logfile
04.07.2000   0.2.9 fixed a bug in abbreviation routine
