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+# Revision history for phladiprelio-ukrainian-shared
+
+## 0.1.0.0 -- 2023-03-12
+
+* First version. Released on an unsuspecting world.
+
diff --git a/Phladiprelio/Ukrainian/ReadDurations.hs b/Phladiprelio/Ukrainian/ReadDurations.hs
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+-- |
+-- Module      :  Phladiprelio.Ukrainian.ReadDurations
+-- Copyright   :  (c) OleksandrZhabenko 2021-2023
+-- License     :  MIT
+-- Stability   :  Experimental
+-- Maintainer  :  oleksandr.zhabenko@yahoo.com
+--
+-- Functions to read the properties data from the files with the special Haskell-like syntaxis.
+
+{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns, NoImplicitPrelude #-}
+
+module Phladiprelio.Ukrainian.ReadDurations where
+
+import GHC.Base
+import CaseBi.Arr (getBFstLSorted')
+import Phladiprelio.Ukrainian.SyllableDouble
+import Text.Read (readMaybe)
+import Data.Maybe
+import System.IO
+import GHC.List
+import Data.List (unlines,lines)
+import System.Directory (doesFileExist)
+import Phladiprelio.Ukrainian.Melodics
+
+
+{-| [(1,\"\1072\"),(2,\"\1077\"),(3,\"\1086\"),(4,\"\1091\"),(5,\"\1080\"),(6,\"\1110\"),
+(7,\"\1100\"),(8,\"\1076\1079\"),(10,\"\1078\"),(15,\"\1073\"),(17,\"\1076\"),(19,\"\1169\"),(21,\"\1075\"),
+(23,\"\1076\1078\"),(25,\"\1079\"),(27,\"\1081\"),(28,\"\1083\"),(30,\"\1084\"),(32,\"\1085\"),(34,\"\1088\"),
+(36,\"\1074\"),(38,\"\1094\"),(39,\"\1095\"),(41,\"\1096\"),(43,\"\1092\"),(45,\"\1082\"),(47,\"\1087\"),
+(49,\"\1089\"),(50,\"\1090\"),(52,\"\1093\"),(54,\"\1089\1100\"),(66,\"\1094\1100\"),(101,\"-\")]
+@
+UZ \'A\' D       дз (plain)                 8
+UZ \'A\' K       дз (palatalized)           9
+UZ \'B\' D       ж  (plain)                 10
+UZ \'B\' K       ж  (semi-palatalized)      11
+UZ \'C\' S       й                          27
+UZ \'D\' N       сь                         54
+UZ \'E\' L       ч  (plain)                 39
+UZ \'E\' M       ч  (semi-palatalized)      40
+UZ \'F\' L       ш  (plain)                 41
+UZ \'F\' M       ш  (semi-palatalized)      42
+    G                                     55
+    H                                     56
+    I                                     57
+    J                                     58
+    K                                     59
+    L                                     60
+    M                                     61
+    N          нт                         62
+    O          ст                         63
+    P          ть                         64
+    Q          дзь                        12
+    R          зь                         13
+    S          нь                         65
+    T          дь                         14
+UZ \'a\' W       а                          1
+UZ \'b\' D       б  (plain)                 15
+UZ \'b\' K       б  (semi-palatalized)      16
+UZ \'c\' D       ц  (plain)                 38
+UZ \'d\' D       д  (plain)                 17
+UZ \'d\' K       д  (palatalized)           18
+UZ \'e\' W       е                          2
+UZ \'f\' L       ф  (plain)                 43
+UZ \'f\' M       ф  (semi-palatalized)      44
+UZ \'g\' D       ґ  (plain)                 19
+UZ \'g\' K       ґ  (semi-palatalized)      20
+UZ \'h\' D       г  (plain)                 21
+UZ \'h\' K       г  (semi-palatalized)      22
+UZ \'i\' W       і                          6
+UZ \'j\' D       дж (plain)                 23
+UZ \'j\' K       дж (palatalized)           24
+UZ \'k\' L       к  (plain)                 45
+UZ \'k\' M       к  (semi-palatalized)      46
+UZ \'l\' S       л  (plain)                 28
+UZ \'l\' O       л  (palatalized)           29
+UZ \'m\' S       м  (plain)                 30
+UZ \'m\' O       м  (semi-palatalized)      31
+UZ \'n\' S       н  (plain)                 32
+UZ \'n\' O       н  (palatalized)           33
+UZ \'o\' W       о                          3
+UZ \'p\' L       п  (plain)                 47
+UZ \'p\' M       п  (semi-palatalized)      48
+UZ \'q\' E       ь                          7
+UZ \'r\' S       р  (plain)                 34
+UZ \'r\' O       р  (palatalized)           35
+UZ \'s\' L       с  (plain)                 49
+UZ \'t\' L       т  (plain)                 50
+UZ \'t\' M       т  (palatalized)           51
+UZ \'u\' W       у                          4
+UZ \'v\' S       в  (plain)                 36
+UZ \'v\' O       в  (semi-palatalized)      37
+UZ \'w\' N       ць                         66
+UZ \'x\' L       х  (plain)                 52
+UZ \'x\' M       х  (semi-palatalized)      53
+UZ \'y\' W       и                          5
+UZ \'z\' D       з  (plain)                 25
+UZ \'z\' K       з  (palatalized)           26
+@
+-}
+sound8s :: FlowSound
+sound8s = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,
+   43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,66,101]
+
+
+
+{-|
+
+The first number is the default value that corresponds usually to the word gap duration (and here is not important).
+The next 52 'Double' numbers become the durations of the above specified 'Sound8' values respectively, the order
+must be preserved (if you consider it important, well, it should be!). If some number in the file cannot be read
+as a 'Double' number the function uses the first one that can be instead (the default value). If no such is specified
+at all, then the default number is 1.0 for all the 'Sound8' sound representations that is hardly correct.
+
+-}
+readSound8ToDouble :: String -> (Double,[(Sound8, Double)])
+readSound8ToDouble xs
+ | null xs = (1.0,zip sound8s . replicate 10000 $ 1.0)
+ | otherwise =
+    let wws = lines xs
+        dbls = map (\ks -> readMaybe ks::Maybe Double) wws
+        dbH
+         | null dbls || all isNothing dbls = 1.0
+         | otherwise = fromJust . head . filter isJust $ dbls
+        dbSs = map (fromMaybe dbH) dbls
+        (firstD,lsts)
+          | null dbls = (1.0,zip sound8s . replicate 10000 $ 1.0)
+          | otherwise = (dbH,zip sound8s (dbSs `mappend` replicate 10000 1.0))
+            in (firstD,lsts)
+
+divide2SDDs :: String -> [String]
+divide2SDDs ys
+ | null tss = [unlines kss]
+ | otherwise = unlines kss : divide2SDDs (unlines rss)
+     where wwss = lines ys
+           (kss,tss) = break (any (=='*')) wwss
+           rss = dropWhile (any (== '*')) tss
+
+readSyllableDurations :: FilePath -> IO [[[[Sound8]]] -> [[Double]]]
+readSyllableDurations file = do
+  exists <- doesFileExist file
+  if exists then do 
+   xs <- readFile file
+   let yss = take 9 . divide2SDDs $ xs
+       readData = map readSound8ToDouble yss
+   return . map (\(d,zs) -> syllableDurationsGDc (getBFstLSorted' d zs)) $ readData
+  else return []
+
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+The module is intended to be used by both old and new projects related to PhLADiPreLiO for 
+Ukrainian language.
+
+P.S.: the author would like to devote this project to support the Fund GASTROSTARS.
+At the day of publication of the first version of the package (12/03/2023) there is
+the Fund foundator's (this is Emma Kok) Birthday.
+If you would like to share some financial support, please, contact the fund
+using the URL:
+
+https://gastrostars.nl/hou-mij-op-de-hoogte
+
diff --git a/phladiprelio-ukrainian-shared.cabal b/phladiprelio-ukrainian-shared.cabal
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+cabal-version:      2.4
+name:               phladiprelio-ukrainian-shared
+version:            0.1.0.0
+
+-- A short (one-line) description of the package.
+synopsis:           A shared by different Ukrainian implementations of the PhLADiPreLiO functionality.
+
+-- A longer description of the package.
+description:        Is intended to be used by both old phonetic-languages-simplified-examples-array and new phladiprelio-ukrainian-simple packages.
+
+-- A URL where users can report bugs.
+-- bug-reports:
+
+-- The license under which the package is released.
+license:            MIT
+author:             Oleksandr Zhabenko
+maintainer:         oleksandr.zhabenko@yahoo.com
+
+-- A copyright notice.
+copyright:          Oleksandr Zhabenko
+category:           Language, Math, Data
+extra-source-files: CHANGELOG.md, README.md
+
+library
+    exposed-modules:  Phladiprelio.Ukrainian.ReadDurations
+
+    -- LANGUAGE extensions used by modules in this package.
+    other-extensions: BangPatterns, NoImplicitPrelude
+    build-depends:    base >=4.13 && <5, directory >=1.3.4.0 && <2, ukrainian-phonetics-basic-array ==0.7.0.0, mmsyn2-array ==0.3.1.1
+    hs-source-dirs:   .
+    default-language: Haskell2010
+
