Re: [Eliot-dev] Catalan language file and dictionary

[Olivier Teuliere]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Joan Montané<address@hidden> wrote:
>> The only bug I'm aware of is that typing 'Q' or 'Y' transforms the
>> string into 'QU' or 'NY' respectively, which should not happen, since
>> the internal character is not supposed to be a valid input string for
>> the tile. I know where the bug comes from, but I don't know how to fix
>> it yet :-) However, it shouldn't prevent playing normally.
>>
> Well, it's not a bih bug. :-D

Actually there is another little problem: if 'L.L' is present in a
regular expression, it will always match the 'L·L' character, and not
"L followed by any character followed by L".
An easy workaround is to use "[L].L" instead...

> Well, the main feature request is an option to validate/unvalidate
> manually words, specially for duplicate mode (also for computer
> player). The reason is that DANOSC (and maybe other languages)
> dictionary it's not 100% perfect. We have detected some missing and
> wrong words in DANOSC. It's a quick hack from Linux catalan dictionary
> and it's hard to update properly.

I don't think this is a "good" feature to add, for 2 main reasons:
1) Eliot is designed to work with a correct list of words. If some
words are incorrect in a dictionary, the dictionary should be fixed,
but this is not related to playing Scrabble.
2) Even if Eliot could maintain lists of words marked as "valid" or
"invalid", you would have no guarantee, after playing thousands of
games, that all words will have been flagged. To get a 100% correct
dictionary, you would still need to do the painful work of checking
the words one by one (which you are already doing).

In my opinion, a better approach would be to generate, from time to
time, a new dawg with an updated list of words. I wouldn't mind
replacing the previous one on the website.

> Another minor request is a master duplicate mode. I think in France
> it's also played. This mode requiere save and load features, :-(
>
> In master duplicate a player, call it Master, planned a full duplicate
> game (racks and played turns).
> Then, the others players, play duplicate as normal, but the racks are
> the racks planned by Master (they aren't random), and the choosed
> played word is always de Master played word, neverless isn't the
> better score. This mode is played in schools.

Indeed, this requires save and load features, but they were already on
my todo-list anyway :-)
Once saved games are possible, I think it wouldn't be very hard to
implement master duplicate mode (BTW, is this the official name for
this type of game?).

Regards,
-- 
Olivier