# About This is a bot for converting x- or z-sampa to IPA, or converting a custom ascii notation to standard PIE notation. Useful for e.g. linguistics and conlanging, and for creating powerful unicode emoticons. Simply type your ascii inside // or [] with a prefixed x, z or p for x-sampa, z-sampa and PIE-notation respectively. For instance: x[sts_>q_hts_ht_hx] gives [st͡sʼqʰt͡sʰtʰx] x/dZAn "m{d@n/ gives /d͡ʒɑn ˈmædən/ p[x2"owis x1"ek'wo:s-kve] gives *h₂ówis h₁é"kwōs-kʷe Guides to these systems can be found here: X-sampa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-SAMPA Z-sampa: http://www.kneequickie.com/kq/Z-SAMPA For the PIE notation: * a preceding " is acute accent * a following : is the macron * a following . is the syllabicity marker * h always becomes superscript and v is superscript w. * Palato-velars are marked with a following ' and x1, x2, x3 etc. yields the laryngeals, with x@ for the subscript a laryngeal, and xx for an unknown laryngeal. This is best learned by experimenting. These conversions were originally taken from [xsduan/conniebot](https://github.com/xsduan/conniebot). But have later divirged a bit. To use the bot I run an instance at [@wug:dodsorf.as](https://matrix.to/#/@wug:dodsorf.as), you can invite it to a room or DM it to use the converter. Or you can read the setup instructions below to host your own! # Setup 1. Copy `config.json.example` to `config.json` 2. Change the homeserver value to your homeserver api url (i.e "https://matrix.dodsorf.as") 3. Change the token value to your users token. see https://t2bot.io/docs/access_tokens/ for how to get one. 4. `npm install` and `npm start` You could also build a docker image but you're on your own there! # Development `npm install` and `npm start` If you use nix you can run shell.nix to get node and npm in your environment. If you use direnv you can also load the shell automatically