Bug in emacspeak?

[Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If changing the regexp would result in degraded performance, I think
it would be better to leave things as they are - its not a big issue
really. I just thought we should have consistent behavior, but not at
any cost.

Tim

T. V. Raman writes:
 > 
 > Here is what happens:
 > 
 > If there are no alphanumeric chars, it gets caught by the code in
 > emacspeak-speak-line which matches various "decoration" rules. If
 > you stick an alphanumeric in there, those patterns wont match,
 > the text will make it to through to the speech server, and the
 > processing defined in the server -- cleanup + tts processing
 > happens. 
 > 
 > I suppose it might make sense to make the decoration rule
 > patterns smarter, but that will come at a cost, since those are
 > regexps that are getting checked all the time, so keeping it
 > simple, where it works in the majority of cases is the right
 > thing from the big picture point of view.Tim> T. V. Raman writes:
 >     >> 
 >     >> I copied your lines of code into a foo.rb file so that it
 >     >> was in ruby mode, and yes, the third line of special chars
 >     >> is not spoken with punctuations set to some.
 >     >> 
 >     >> On the Dectalk Express it does produce a tone; I need to
 >     >> verify if/whether it produces a tone on the Viavoice.
 >     >> 
 >     >> Personally I dont think this is a bug --- which chars did
 >     >> you expect to be spoken out of the line:
 >     >> "#{$`}<<#{$&}>>#{$'}"
 >     Tim> 
 >     Tim> The reason I thought it may be a bug is because the
 >     Tim> behavior is inconsistent. If you add a alphanumeric
 >     Tim> character to that line, the dollar characters are spoken
 >     Tim> as well as the alphanumeric character.  Without the
 >     Tim> alphanumeric character nothing is spoken. I would have
 >     Tim> assumed that with punctuation set to some, the same
 >     Tim> punctuation characters should be spoken regardless of
 >     Tim> whether therre is an alphanumeric character as well.
 >     Tim> 
 >     >> 
 >  > Note that punctuation some in TTS is purely to preserve
 >  > intonation structure, and is not necessarily very clever about
 >  > selectively speaking subsets of chars out of a string like
 >  > above. 
 >  > 
 >  > But the bigger question: why would you program with punctuations
 >  > set to some? Anyone who does that will surely get what they deserve:-)
 >  >
 > 
 > Actually, this occured while reading a web page about ruby i.e. I was
 > not programming, but surfing the web. 
 > 
 > Tim
 > 
 >  
 >  > >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
 >  >     Tim> Dear all,
 >  >     Tim> 
 >  >     Tim> for a while, I've observed occasions when emacspeak
 >  >     Tim> refuses to speak a line which contains punctuation
 >  >     Tim> characters, but no alphanumberic characters even when
 >  >     Tim> punctuation mode is set to none.. I've not looked into
 >  >     Tim> this at all, but wanted to see if anyone else
 >  >     Tim> experiences similar behavior. I suspect its possibly a
 >  >     Tim> bug in the cleanup patterns used in the tcl script, but
 >  >     Tim> this is just a wild arse guess. I'm wondering if users
 >  >     Tim> with other synthesises experience the same problem (I'm
 >  >     Tim> using ViaVoice). this may help me track down what the
 >  >     Tim> error is due to.
 >  >     Tim> 
 >  >     Tim> Below is an example using a piece of ruby code. In this
 >  >     Tim> example, the 3rd line is not spoken unless punctuation
 >  >     Tim> is set to all. However, I think it should still speak
 >  >     Tim> some of the characters if punctuation is set to some,
 >  >     Tim> but this doesn't happen unless you also add some
 >  >     Tim> non-punctuation characters.
 >  >     Tim> 
 >  >     Tim> def showRE(a,re) if a =~ re "#{$`}<<#{$&}>>#{$'}" else
 >  >     Tim> "no match" end end
 >  >     Tim> 
 >  >     Tim> The reason I suspect this is a bug rather than a feature
 >  >     Tim> is because its behavior is inconsistent. For example, if
 >  >     Tim> you add an alphernumeric character to the end of the
 >  >     Tim> line - for example 'f', then the line is spoken with all
 >  >     Tim> the $ characters and the f. Once you remove the f,
 >  >     Tim> nothing is spoken, but I would have expected the dollar
 >  >     Tim> signs should still have been spoken (this is with
 >  >     Tim> punctuation set to some). I've also noticed that if you
 >  >     Tim> get this page spoken using page up and then page down,
 >  >     Tim> the dollar signs do get spoken, but if you move through
 >  >     Tim> the page using the down arrow or C-n, the line is
 >  >     Tim> blank. You also don't hear the indent spoken.
 >  >     Tim> 
 >  >     Tim> I'm hoping someone using a different synthesizer which
 >  >     Tim> uses a tcl script does not observe this inconsistency as
 >  >     Tim> this will give me something to compare and assist in
 >  >     Tim> debugging these reasonably complex regular expressions.
 >  >     Tim> 
 >  >     Tim> -- Tim Cross tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx
 >  >     Tim> 
 >  >     Tim> There are two types of people in IT - those who do not
 >  >     Tim> manage what they understand and those who do not
 >  >     Tim> understand what they manage.
 >  >     Tim> 
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 >  > -- 
 >  > Best Regards,
 >  > --raman
 >  > 
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 > -- 
 > Tim Cross
 > tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx
 > 
 > There are two types of people in IT - those who do not manage what they 
 > understand and those who do not understand what they manage.
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Tim Cross
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