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diff --git a/doc/gf-history.html b/doc/gf-history.html index 52dc4319b..ed0669a1b 100644 --- a/doc/gf-history.html +++ b/doc/gf-history.html @@ -13,6 +13,37 @@ Changes in functionality since May 17, 2005, release of GF Version 2.2 </center> <p> +1/12 (BB,AR) The command <tt>at = apply_transfer</tt>, which applies +a transfer function to a term. This is used for noncompositional +translation. Transfer functions are defined in a special transfer +language (file suffix <tt>.tr</tt>), which is compiled into a +run-time transfer core language (file suffix <tt>.trc</tt>). +The compiler is included in <tt>GF/transfer</tt>. The following is +a complete example of how to try out transfer: +<pre> + % cd GF/transfer + % make -- compile the trc compiler + % cd examples -- GF/transfer/examples + % ../compile_to_core -i../lib numerals.tr + % mv numerals.trc ../../examples/numerals + % cd ../../examples/numerals -- GF/examples/numerals + % gf + > i decimal.gf + > i BinaryDigits.gf + > i numerals.trc + > p -lang=Cncdecimal "123" | at num2bin | l + 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 +</pre> +Other relevant commands are: +<ul> +<li> <tt>i file.trc</tt>: import a transfer module +<li> <tt>pg -printer=transfer</tt>: create a syntax datatype in <tt>.tr</tt> format +</ul> +For more information on the commands, see <tt>help</tt>. Documentation on +the transfer language: to appear. + +<p> + 17/11 (AR) Made it possible for lexers to be nondeterministic. Now with a simple-minded implementation that the parser is sent each lexing result in turn. The option <tt>-cut</tt> is used for |