Woah. I've started a lexicon and some rules for a language family I'm working on, and...so elegant! so clear!

I haven't found any bugs yet, but if I do I'll let you know.


(I do have an idea for a feature that could be useful, though I don't know how easy it would be- would it be possible to tie adjacent rules together so that they run at the same time, so that you don't have to worry about their ordering? For example, I've got a vowel lowering rule in Quomonak where *i lowers to /e/ and all of *e *ɨ *o lower to /a/ before a coda *h. Normally, you have to write the rule governing *e *ɨ *o before you can write the rule governing *i, because otherwise you'll get a shift *i -> *e -> /a/. Obviously this is pretty easy to solve with judicious rule ordering or use of variables or an expanded rule set- but in more complicated cases it could be useful.)

EDIT- Wait, I'm using Windows command prompt...I have no idea what I'm doing, can someone give me a better rundown of how to open the thing?

EDIT2- What are the square brackets [ ] reserved for? They're listed as program-reserved characters, but I don't think it's mentioned in the manual what they're used for...

EDIT3- Can we do variable-to-variable transformations if the variables have the same number of segments in them? For example,

S = p t k
Z = b d g
V = a e i o u

S > Z / V_V

Is that a workable rule?