# Pseudo-Vietnamese generated by Gordon Rugg's method
# Last edited on 2004-03-01 04:46:32 by stolfi
#
@chars alpha {ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRSTUVXY}
@chars alpha {abcdefghiklmnopqrstuvxy} 
@chars alpha {µß^~+`'°} 
# 
# SOURCES
#   
#   This file was generated mechanically by a software implementation
#   of Gordon Rugg's table method (script "rugg-generator")
# 
#   This script differs a bit from the physical implementation described
#   by Gordon. For one thing, The table is interpreted as 52×3 = 156
#   columns by 10 rows; therefore, a grille can be described by three
#   digits wich specify the relative row indices of the three holes.
# 
#   Also, the script assumes that the table is circular in the vertical
#   direction, i.e. when the grille runs off the bottom of the table it
#   wraps around to the top. Therefore every grille can be placed over
#   teh table in 520 different positions.
# 
# LANGUAGE, SPELLING AND ENCODING
# 
#   The input table ("main.gru") used for thid file consists of 520
#   consecutive words from the Cadman Vietnamese Pentateuch, split by
#   "_"s into their three major segments (initial consonants,
#   vovels+tone, final consonants). Each "folio" of the output
#   consists of 520 tokens generated with a single grille. 
#   
#   The grilles were selected by hand. The table was filled with the
#   triplets from "main.gru" in row-by-row order; so the first folio,
#   which uses the grille 000, is simply a copy of the model text.
#   
#   The source file used a standard encoding of Vietnamese in ASCII, VIQR (see
#   table at end of this file) -- except that some accents were
#   remapped to avoid confusion with puctuation ("?"->"@{ß}", "("->"@{µ}",
#   "."->"@{°}"). The source contained many Biblical nouns 
#   phonetically transcribed into Vietnamese syllables, e.g. "@{Gie^-ho^-va}".
#
# DOCUMENT STRUCTURE  
#
#   @section 1 {bN} = book N (1 to 5).
#     @section 2 {fNr} = output of grille number N (1,2...).
#       @section 3 {tx} = the text (1,2,..).
#
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