Release of greek-normalisation 0.3

In the last couple of weeks I’ve done a couple of minor releases of the greek-normalisation Python library which brings together various code I use to clean up Greek texts and normalise the forms.

The 0.2 release (which I neglected to announce) just had a small fix to the breathing_check function to support things like ἀϊ (which failed before because it didn’t take into account the diaeresis). Soon I’ll blog about a new Python tool I’ve been building which will provide a framework for doing lots of checks like this.

The 0.3 release now installs two command-line scripts toNFC and toNFD to convert a file to either an NFC or NFD Unicode Normalization Form.

Once installed you can do things like:

toNFC source.txt > nfc_version.txt

The repository is https://github.com/jtauber/greek-normalisation and it’s pip-installable as greek-normalisation.

See my previous post The Normalisation Column in MorphGNT for the original work this code came form.

at the intersection of computing, linguistics, philology, and learning science

By day I’m an entrepreneur, web technologist and open-source developer but my academic background is in linguistics (along with some classics, comparative philology, and educational statistics) and my main avocation is working on text, annotations, analysis and software relating to historical languages with a particular interest in facilitating better learning.

While my focus has mostly been on Biblical Greek, much of the work is highly relevant to other Hellenistic Greek texts, other dialects of Ancient Greek and, indeed, texts in completely different languages as well.

All code written for this endeavour is open source and text and data is made available under a Creative Commons license to the extent allowed by the sources used.