Agate Rule Tester Agate Rule Tester - Self-contained rule development and testing environment for agate translations for DTI's WireSpeed system
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Agate Rule Tester - Self-contained rule development and testing environment for agate translations for DTI's WireSpeed system Agate Rule Tester is an open source self-contained rule development and testing environment for agate translations for DTI's WireSpeed system.The Agate Rule Tester is an attempt to lessen the pain involved when building agate translations for Digital Technology International's WireSpeed system.'agate' is a term for a unit of measurement found primarily in newspaper publishing. Agate is approximately 5 1/2 points (1/14 inch or 1.814 mm).The very small typeface used for statistical, sports, and stock data in your newspaper is agate type.The process of agate translation is to turn this mess into what you see above, a nice, clean, readable output that can be printed in a newspaper. DTI's WireSpeed is the process that does this actual conversion (along with taking in the raw file and storing it in the database). Agate Rule Tester bypasses a lot of the issues one can encounter when translating agate by firstly being a stand-alone application. You load the base ruleset, raw agate file, and save test InDesign documents all from the tester. Also, because it operates without the need for a database or SpeedManager, one could build rules offline and simply upload them at a later time.The tester also includes accoutrements not present in DTIs present translation building workflow: the ability to turn off rules instead of just deleting them, real-time output shows what changes your rule just made, better error reporting when a regular expression fails, and the entire process is much faster. During initial testing of the application, some developers were able to complete rulesets in 20-30 minutes and with a single reload of WireSpeed instead of 2-8 hours and dozens of restarts, which is normal for the traditional approach.

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