Help for the Randomwords v3 Settings
Lists
You encounter Lists when working with Categories, Syllables and Syllables per word.
The [+] Button adds a new element to the List,
the [-] Button enters Delete Mode and
the [<-] or [^] Button removes the last element from the List.
Delete Mode
In Delete Mode, the Items you can delete start blinking in red.
You can click on one of them, which deletes it and exits Delete Mode.
You can also press the [x] Button, which exits Delete Mode without deleting anything.
Categories
A Category consists of:
- a name (anything you want), which can be as long as you want (although only 3 characters are displayed at a time), that is displayed in front of the = sign,
- a list of items, which represent all the possible letters for that category
You can also add the names of other Categories as letters, which can be resolved (see Recursion Limit)
Recursion Limit
The Recursion Limit is the number of times the Generator will substitute the contents of a category for that category's letter inside a letter list before halting and just inserting the raw name of that category instead.
Possible Syllables
This is a list of lists,
each item is a list of categories which will be used to generate a word.
example:
Possible Syllables:
V V C
C V C?
This will generate syllables with either 2 or 3 letters (the question mark expands to two structures, one with the C and one without),
a 2-lettered word will have its first letter randomly chosen from the category C and its second one from V
a 3-lettered word will either have its letter chosen from V, V and C respectively or from C, V and C respectively.
Rewrite Rules
These Rules are applied after a word is generated (so they even work cross-syllable).
The string on the left is replaced by the one on the right, '>' matches the start of a word and '<' the end.
These Rules are ignored when calculating the maximum possible number of different words, so you might want to turn off Generate all words when necessary when working with many and/or complex rewrite rules.
Other
No words twice is self-explanatory.
Generate all words when necessary will generate a complete list of all possible words when the word amount is greater than or equal to the mathematical maximum possible number of words.
It does not take Rewrite Rules into account (when calculating the number) so you might want to turn it off when using them, but be warned: Turning it off could result in word generation becoming stuck until timeout.
Timeout sets the Time, after which, when the word generator isn't yet finished, it will just abort and give you whatever it's got so far.
Syllables per Word
This is a list of possible syllables per word, of which one of the numbers is randomly chosen for each word.
example:
Syllables per word:
2
or 3
Terefore, all words would have either 2 or 3 syllables.
Duplicate numbers are automatically removed.