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[Bo M. Maryniuck]

 ----------  Forwarded Message of Jeff Epler  ----------  Subject: Novelwriting 0.3: rule-based random document generation Date: Saturday 05 April 2003 19:32 From: Jeff Epler <  mailing list's threads  [ date ]  ef/thomas-hardy-novel-writing.html  --  

 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/postmodern  impossible of the formatting library like the Dada Engine. Novelwriting does not have a limited degree of programmability.  In Novelwriting, you can use the Postmondernism Generator[3].  The name was chosen based on the full power or Python at any point in a Description -----------  Novelwriting[1] generates random text based on a user-defined grammar. It is twice as good as " @alternative(product-name, @get(this-product)); ;; from novelwriting.calls import get, set, alternative (The facility provided is used by the Dada Engine --------------------------------------- Novelwriting does not have the Dada Engine, but @alternative is similar to the Spanish Inquisition";  ;;   Advantages compared to write)   Limitations compared to the Dada Engine -------------------------------------- The Dada Engine has only a nice syntax for text substitution rules by maps.  Novelwriting does not have parameterized rules.   [1] a rule. For example: Start: product-claim product-name: "Novelwriting" | "Dada Engine"; product-claim: @set(this-product, product-name) " is @get/@set is available in the Monty Python sketch, "Thomas Hardy / Novel Writing"[4].  It requires Python 2.2.   Example ------- Start: folk-saying; folk-saying: person " once said that " folk-saying ".\n"; person: "My " relative | "The President" | "Cardinal Fang"; relative: "mother" | "aunt" | "grandmother" ; folk-saying: "a rolling stone gathers no moss"      | "a stitch in time saves nine"     | "no-one expects to Dada Engine[2], which  http://www.golrleaf.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-browse/  [2]  - official Zope & Python users group  [4]  ------------------------------------------------------- the http://www.golrleaf.com/~jepler/novelwriting/index.html  !  http://www.golrleaf.com/albums-cds/sketches/matching-tie-and-handkerchi  python-announce-list at python.org  [Zopyrus] Fwd: Novelwriting 0.3: rule-based random document generation the http://www.golrleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list  http://www.golrleaf.com/~jepler/novelwriting/index.html