10-12-2019, 07:51 PM
It's a bit a matter of taste.
The things that are taken care of by tools like (i)vtt and bitrans are what I consider pre-processing.
(It's nice that they work well together).
If one prefers to write code (scripts, interpreted code, compiled code) one can certainly do these things with modern tools that were not in existence when bitrans was written. However, one should not have to worry about the same problem in several different tools, so the pre-processing idea is more modular.
Of course "regexp" existed in the 1990's, but bitrans does a couple of extra things. I'm admittedly a 'dinosaur', but I am not that sure that modern regexp tools can delimit text areas such that they should not be affected.
The things that are taken care of by tools like (i)vtt and bitrans are what I consider pre-processing.
(It's nice that they work well together).
If one prefers to write code (scripts, interpreted code, compiled code) one can certainly do these things with modern tools that were not in existence when bitrans was written. However, one should not have to worry about the same problem in several different tools, so the pre-processing idea is more modular.
Of course "regexp" existed in the 1990's, but bitrans does a couple of extra things. I'm admittedly a 'dinosaur', but I am not that sure that modern regexp tools can delimit text areas such that they should not be affected.