zloka tester manual

To use the zloka tester manual, paste lines into it, with sixteen vowels in each line. If the line sounds like a zloka line, the tester will say so.

This is useful in two ways. (A) When you are composing zlokas, the tester helps you to find some mistakes. (B) If you drop here some zloka you found elsewhere, and the tester says lines are bad, most likely there is a misprint somewhere.

If the tester says 4+4, this means that for the line to be a zloka, we must make sure that it is first half splits 4+4, that is, the fourth vowel and the fifth vowel belong to different words. If they are in the same word, he line is not a zloka, even if the tester says "zloka line" because it has a right pattern of heavy and light.

If the tester says 5+3, the fifth and sixth vowel of each line must not be in the same word.

In ALL lines, even if the tester does not warn 4+4 or 5+3, the whole line must split 8+8, that is, the eight and ninth vorels cannot belng to the same word.

I don't understand why you didn't make your tester look at the spaces and hyphens so that it can check itself the same-word issue, instead of expecting me to check it manually.

Long story short, my students can't tell if a line is correctly spaces and hyphenated or not, because they are getting zloka lines from old manuscripts that do not show spaces. To keep them from overtrusting the checker, I made it so that it ignores spaces, hyphens and punctuation completely.

May I copypaste here zloka lines from your KAGLOSS pages?

Do NOT do that if the kagloss page is set to W style. That spells disaster. This tester works fine with all other styles, however.

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