tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 17 15:22:10 1997
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Re: Klingon to English autotranslation
- From: Joel Peter Anderson <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon to English autotranslation
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:22:06 -0600 (CST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Anthony.Appleyard wrote:
> I wrote an EMACS-type text editor called AAEMACS (running under MSDOS) that I
> use for most file editing including email. After I wrote my Klingon to English
> translater, I attached a copy of the translater as a clip-on to AAEMACS as a
> function `kltrans' (callable by click-both-mouse-buttons-at-once), which looks
> for a Klingon word around where the cursor is and puts a translation of it
> into a file display window called T$KLING.
This prompted me to do a similar thing with my Unix mods of d'Armond's
pojwI'. Basically I added a perl front-end taking stdin from a pipe, and
passing it a line a time to like so:
xklin -k "pa'Daq tlhIngan Hol"
(filtering out the extraneous output).
Very handy and easy to do....
[The nay-sayers may now commence to decry the evils of using such tools]
Joel. (merely a ghunwI')
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