sillabify lines for poetry about greek-accentuation HOT 7 OPEN

We could allow passing in the list of consonant clusters as an argument and define a constant for each of the common lists. What should we call each of these sets? BASIC, POETIC, HOMERIC?

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So, in other words, we'd have

BASIC = [
    "βδ", "βλ", "βρ",
    "γλ", "γν", "γρ",
    "δρ",
    "θλ", "θν", "θρ",
    "κλ", "κν", "κρ", "κτ",
    "μν",
    "πλ", "πν", "πρ", "πτ",
    "σβ", "σθ", "σκ", "σμ", "σπ", "στ", "σφ", "σχ", "στρ",
    "τρ",
    "φθ", "φλ", "φρ",
    "χλ", "χρ",
]

POETIC = [
    "δρ",
    "θλ", "θν", "θρ", "θμ",
    "κλ", "κν", "κρ",
    "πλ", "πν", "πρ",
    "τρ", "τμ", "τν",
    "φλ", "φρ",
    "χλ", "χρ",
]

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then syllabify would take an option arg for consonant clusters, e.g.

from greek_accentuation.syllabify import syllabify, POETIC

syllabify(word)  # same as syllabify(word, BASIC)
syllabify(word, POETIC)

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I think that this would work very well! Tomorrow I will double-check the list of clusters allowed in poetry and Homer

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@francescomambrini were you able to double-check the list of clusters for POETIC and HOMER?

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@francescomambrini any update on this? I think I can proceed just with the POETIC if that list looks right and can add HOMER when you get a chance.

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Yes! Homer's prosody is complicated by several historical phenomena, like the preservation of digamma, some anomalous consonant redoubling (e.g. ὥςτε λίς > ὥς-τελ-λἰς), or etymological syllabification.
Those cases are basically impossible to catch in a function. In practice, however, for the most part no consonant clustering is needed in Homer. I think the most straightforward way is to give another option, along with PROSE and POETIC, named NO_CLUSTER (empty list). Then users might deal with the exceptions case by case: this should work with Homer.
Maybe there is a more sophisticated way to deal with Homer, but I didn't find it...

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