Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Eric Theise <>]

Hi Rod,

In the first example I wonder if there are enough, indeed any, "j"s in the source text. One example I ran behaved like that when there was no "q" in the source text. That's a case of the "alerts when letters from the mesostring are not found in the sourcefile" issue which is probably the missing feature I should address first.

Apart from raising an alert it's not clear how the algorithm should proceed. One option would be to display the unmatched letters, isolated on their lines as in:

          J

        guArds

        deMand

        shE

      tranSforms

          J

   intO

sovereigntY

       proClaims

        thE

Another would be to halt execution with a message to find a larger, richer source text.

The second example is trickier but I think it is the same issue. You're looking for an "m" but the "m"s I see would be rejected since the next letter is "e" and "mime" contains it. Are there subsequent acceptable "m"s in the source text?

The bigger and more diverse the source text the better.

Eric

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 12:15 PM Rod Stasick <> wrote:

Excited that you’re making this leap.

I’m getting some missing mesoletters in the output.

The mesostring is supposed to be "James Joyce"

            guArds

            deMand

                   shE

                 tranSforms

            intO

   sovereigntY

           proClaims

               thE

another one using different text:

                Joyce

    deliberAtely locates

     locates thE wakean mime

                   aS

         is perfOrmed

            undEr

as you can see, some mesoletters are missing for some reason.

good luck with this and looking forward to its final edition!

Rod

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