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Computer-friendly Nactation methodology for variant/family symbols
Posted By: Nack Ballard In Response To: Computer-friendly Nactation methodology for variant/family symbols (Matt Ryder)
Date: Monday, 7 February 2011, at 8:10 a.m.
My (sadly utopian) idea was this:
1. Hand-nactate Tom's archive so that each trad move has a nactation equivalent associated with it.
2. Split Kye's nacbrac strings (programmatically) into groups of nactation symbols for each reply.
3. Use a simple database (SQL) query to join the nactation symbol in 1. with the corresponding nactation symbol in 2. , allowing the unioned record to be updated with the newer equities.Okay, I understand better why you hoped that each play would have exactly one "best" Nactation. Unfortunately, that is impossibly contrary to the way the system works.
However, there is some very good news. The computer program (once written) will automatically know all possible technically correct Nactations for a play. You can then create tables with all the H plays, and all the D plays, and some of those plays will be in both tables. That's exactly as it should be! You can also create a table of D plays that are not also H (and vice versa) if that's what you want to study/compare. (That's just one example, to convey the idea.)
Finally, I forgot to mention earlier that for bgonline posts, even when (for the vast minority of plays, or for some special illustration) I have to add html tags to a Nactation letter, I am only one person. There might be over a hundred (or at least dozens) of readers who only have to read a single character. I consider that ample reward in and of itself.
Nack
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