Continuing the discussion from Expanding the peyyālas: question about DN10 root Pali text:
(For those who don’t want to go poring through old threads, this is in reference to a project that I began back in January, to automate the restoration of the long peyyāla of the gradual training in eleven suttas of DN’s Sīlakkhandhavagga.)
I had an enforced break from the project over much of March, after completing a third pass. Coming back out of that break, I decided that results of the third pass were good enough to get along with for now, and that it was time to write a script to actually automate the restoration of the elision in the six cognate files for each sutta, using only the two .json files I had prepared for each sutta and the source material from the DN2 cognate files.
I wrote the script in Raku and am pleased to report that I have a definite working proof of concept. At some point I’ll try to translate the elision-restoration script to Python if there’s any demand for that. It’s pretty short and straightforward.
I expect that Ven @snowbird is anticipating a report on the nuances, but I would like to publish the proof-of-concept in a github repository first, and to that end I’ll be spending some time getting a lot more familiar with github and that whole process than I am now. In the meantime for those interested, here is the Google Sheets doc that I developed while preparing the .json files to automate this process:
The above onebox is saying “This Sheet is private” but I’ve double-checked and the status on goog is “Anyone on the internet with the link can open.” Let me know if you’d like to look at it but have any trouble doing so.