Brassica changelog

v0.2.0

• Allow grapheme to begin with star
• Allow lexeme sequences in categories using {…} syntax
• Allow backreferences to occur in the environment
• Allow user to choose separator used between multiple results (previously a space)
• Internal refactor: category expansion is now separate from parsing
• Add --version command-line option
• Store MultiZipper data in a Vector rather than a linked list (for performance)
• Bugfix: subtraction now removes all subtracted graphemes
• Store paradigm builder output in a tree data structure, allowing a more compact output format
• Documented abstract features in paradigm builder (previously present but undocumented)

v0.1.1

• Rewrote executables with a client/server architecture for better Windows support. The library remains unchanged.

v0.1.0

• Add new syntax with # in lexicon to create word boundaries which can be manipulated by sound changes
• Web interface greatly improved using WebAssembly
• Allow synchronising scroll positions in GUI between input and output textboxes
• Add timeout to desktop GUI to abort long-running computations
• Allow category backreferencing with @n before category
• Allow forcing nondeterminism with @? before category
• Add ‘input→output’ format for output words
• Change default output format for MDF input to wordlist in CLI
• Add ‘or environments’ with syntax ‘target / replacement / env1 / env2 / env3 / …’. Former rule exceptions with similar syntax have been changed to syntax ‘target / replacement / env // exception’.
• Improve documentation