Re: read text

["Randall C. O'Reilly" <oreilly@grey.colorado.edu>]

Richardson <F.1.Richardson@herts.ac.uk> writes:
> to the nature of the read-text function....I was just wondering whether
> there is an alternative to the #startgroup that would create
> time_event_groups or a simple way to create the groups as
> time_event_m_groups whilst still using the read text function...

You have uncovered a nice bug there!  I was writing this message:

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You just need to set the default type in the events.gp to be
TimeEvent_MGroup -- this *should* happen automatically in a
TimeEnvironment, but in any case you set it explicitly using the
following command at the script:

environment.events.gp.el_typ = TimeEvent_MGroup;

or you should be able to edit this by editing the .events and then
editing the gp (it is hidden by default so you need to do Show/Hidden
to see it).
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And then I tried it and it doesn't work!  The automatic setting is
broken and it ignores it anyway.  I'll fix all of this soon and make
the updated source code available.  Fixing this might break a few
things because it is such a low-level change so I'll need to test it
out a bit before releasing things.

Meanwhile, there is a script file: css/include/read_event_gps.css that
does essentially the same thing as ReadText, and you can edit it to
explicitly make event groups of the right type..

				- Randy