IVTT recipes

[nickpelling]

The idea would be to use a tool called Emscripten that compiles your C code into a kind of dense JavaScript code called WebAssembly plus an HTML page, that you can view in a browser. Is ivtt in C?

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Sorry, yes, of course it's in C. I'll have a look at this later...

[ReneZ]

I had a look as well, but the "Hello World" example didn't answer any of the open questions:
- how to enter the command options
- any other way of specifying input/output files that are on the user's local environment

[RobGea]

Command line for ascii only text from all folios designated as H , Herbal in ZL IVTT transcription file.

ivtt.exe -x7 +IH ZL3a-n.txt ZL_Herbal.txt

Breakdown
[1]           [2]     [3]         [4]                    [5]
ivtt.exe   -x7   +IH    ZL3a-n.txt     ZL_Herbal.txt

[1]    Executable name

[2]   -x7  {Turn into a text‐only Ascii file, preserving uncertain spaces}

[3]   +IH  {+ keep}   {(2 character locus type),   I =  Ilustration type,  H = herbal }

[4]   Input file
[5]   Output file

Results in a text file containing the voynichese text of the Herbal folios with '?' for unknown letters  and' @nnn', ( n is a digit )  for Rare chars

Link to IVTT User manual  can be found on this page, subsection  'Transliteration File processing tools'
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[nablator]

To compile ivtt.c as a C++ source on Windows with Microsoft Visual Studio (2019) I had to change a few things:

hash == 1;
-> it is probably meant to be: hash = 1;

char folname[] = "      ";
-> the string is too short, it should be one character longer to allow folname[in_foli] = 0; when in_foli is 7.

int selpage, selloc;
-> uninitialized int used later, changed to: int selpage, selloc = 0;

char ctest[8] = "#=IVTFF ";
char dtest[8] = "#=VDBTF ";
-> changed to:
const char ctest[9] = "#=IVTFF ";
const char dtest[9] = "#=VDBTF ";

Also I had to add:
#pragma warning( disable : 4996 )
to allow "unsafe" C functions fopen, strcpy

[ReneZ]

Thanks for that!

I have created version 2.1 (without the #pragma) but I will have to test it before I can replace v2.0 on my web site.

[ReneZ]

It's taken a while, but this has now been done.

[jeremiedevelops]

Has anyone suggested running ivtt in a browser? i.e. by compiling it for wasm etc

It only took three years after this message... but I created exactly this! I compiled IVTT to WebAssembly via Emscripten and used HTML+CSS+JavaScript to build a nice UI wrapper around it. The process was a lot simpler than I imagined, Emcripten does most of the heavy lifting for you.

I wonder if there'd be any interest in something like this for other tools, for example bitrans.

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