The grammar of TBC (Text by Code) should have:
\n– Primitives: Paths, Glyphs, Characters, Words, Strings, and Element
\n– Methods: To get text, parse it into primitives, manipulate it, place it, render it, and make it move.
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\nPrimitives:
\n1. A path<\/b> is a line that moves through space.
\n2. A shape<\/b> is a closed path with fill.
\n3. A glyph<\/b> is a shape that for TBC is usually a letter.
\n4. A character<\/b> is the semantic equivalent to a glyph. Thus Roman Character “I” is a character that corresponds to a family of shapes that are horizontal bars with serifs at the ends.
\n5. A word<\/b> is a sequence of characters that usually does not include a space character and isn’t too long.
\n6. A string<\/b> is a more general version of a word in that it can be longer and contain all characters.
\n7. An element<\/b> is an xml object. I am not sure of this, but I would like an xml api native to the language.<\/p>\n
Processes:
\nSo what could we do with these primitives?
\n1. In the simplest form we should be able to get text from a source like a keyboard, file, or URL and create a string. We should then be able to do things to the string like break it into words. The words we should be able to place in a 2D space.
\n2. At a more advanced level I should be able to break a text into characters and then do things to the corresponding glyphs. In other words I can not only manipulate the strings, but the shapes of the letters. Thus I could have letters that jitter on the screen or change shape.
\n3. The manipulation of text should be something I can do so I could create an Eliza like bot. Thus I need regular expressions and so on.<\/p>\n
I can probably fake this out with Ruby in that I can create library of objects and a mechanism to output to html using divs and absolute placement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The grammar of TBC (Text by Code) should have: – Primitives: Paths, Glyphs, Characters, Words, Strings, and Element – Methods: To get text, parse it into primitives, manipulate it, place it, render it, and make it move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}