- modified 15.02.26
History of Creation
In 2007, I managed to snatch a chunk of purely physiological rest from this fleeting life in Crimea (Mezhvodnoe settlement). Three weeks of sea, estuary, mud and free time. To combat the latter, I prudently prepared seven volumes of "The Chronicles of a Strange Kingdom" by Oksana Pankeeva (quite edible, as for my taste, fantasy with kings, magicians, dragons, parallel spaces, time shifts and much more). But these books lasted exactly seven days. I went to reread it again...
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"Olga remembered, giggled again and confessed about the donkey. And then she remembered the immortal Uncle Styopa... As a result, His Majesty listened with great interest to the selection of children's poems with lengthy comments, and it was clear that he took Uncle Styopa's problems very close to his heart. "We must tell Jacques," he concluded. "He'll like it. He's almost a bard, he'll add another poem to the series. For adults. «Uncle Styopa and Camilla»." Olga quietly grunted and crawled along the sofa. " |
"But this is a social order," I thought. "Weak? I know about Uncle Styopa, I've read a lot about this lady of the night..." The result, inspired by modern fantasy and old children's poems, was a dozen and a half pages of poetry that left much to be desired in both form and content.
Returning to Sumy and having got hold of the Internet, I
The latter determined the idea of this program: to make the rhythm of the poems visible and edit one based on such a graphic representation. The natural solution was to write a macro for such a widely used editor as MS Word, but I was not satisfied with the results.
Formally, the development of the RitmInMe program began on June 24, 2011, with the creation of the first icon for it. In fact, it used the developments of various software products written by me
DOS
1993 – a macro for text alignment with word wrapping for the Multi-Edit editor.
1994 – a program for printing text with alignment for a matrix printer.
1995 – a program for spell checking Orfej, implemented on the basis of grammar tables proposed in the Russian-English and English-Russian dictionary edited by A.Romanov (Moscow, "Kosmos", 1992). The approach was similar to the approach of A.Zaliznyak (with an order of magnitude fewer paradigms). As Windows and MS Word spread, the program lost its significance and did not develop. Its text in Turbo-Pascal see http://www.illustr.narod.ru/jpg/orfej.rar
Windows
1996-2006 – converted macro of text alignment with word wrap for Multi-Edit editor, as well as a number of macros for Multi-Edit and Word editors, printing programs. The Orfej program was used mainly for correspondence in FIDO conferences (managed to accumulate a spelling dictionary of ~20,000 words).
2007-2008 – script "Antimat" (Anti-obscene), intended to tame the temper of lovers of "oral Russian" in the chat of the file-sharing system DC++ (http://www.illustr.narod.ru/txt/mat_st0p.rar) and a macro for Word-2003, implementing a check of poetic rhythm (http://www.illustr.narod.ru/txt/ritm_i.rar). Both of these forced to acquire a dictionary of all word forms of the Russian language, built on the basis of the dictionary of A.Zaliznyak.
2009-2011 – participation in the creation of the SEO program "Site-Reporter", the experience of which determined the layout of this program and the content of some modules.
The reason for writing the RitmInMe program in Delphi was a number of shortcomings of the Word macro:
| • | does not work very fast and simply "hangs" on big texts; |
| • | antiviruses are unhealthily interested in macros; (nowadays, EXE files are causing a similar unhealthy interest, but I couldn't have imagined it back then); |
| • | Microsoft releases new versions of Word that I don't want to get used to every time; |
| • | implementing full-fledged work with dictionaries in BASIC seemed difficult. |
Therefore, it was decided to write some kind of Notepad analogue that would allow you to check spelling and poetic rhythm in real time, have some kind of built-in rhyme book and various dictionaries (including the ability to maintain your own). And as a super task - to provide people discussing poetry with a kind of "data presentation standard", "communication protocol". The program helps me write poetry easier, and cope with its "childhood illnesses" faster. How edible is what came out - you be the judge.
Since no one kicked me in the neck (not even myself - as in the cases with the spell checker or the macro for Word), the program has some taste, redundancy, pretentiousness and unrealized preparations for the future, for which I ask you to forgive me generously. Phrases like "will be implemented" that appear below in the text should be understood in the subjunctive mood ("either it will be, or it won't").
I also apologize for the taste in the design of the examples given. Well, I like the Monotype Corsiva font, the "white on blue" text and the display of rhythm in syllables. The standard "a la Windows" view is included in the initial settings, and it is easy to switch to displaying rhythm in conventional symbols. And minor discrepancies between the program and the description... Where would we be without them? Either an item will be added to the menu, or the location or appearance of elements will change... Although I solemnly promise to fight against inconsistencies and strive for conformity.