architecture

Managers

• Presentation manager: displays poem and supports editing of poem.
• Layer manager: manages, integrates and displays results of analyses.
• Window manager: manages menus, toolbars and all the usual gubbins.

• Poem manager: connects user I/O with place in poem;
• Word manager analyses words to identify dictionary entries;
• Dictionary manager manages dictionary entries to yield phonetics, rhythm, syllable count, & thesaurus context.
• Stanza manager analyses words & white space to identify stanzas and line breaks.
• Phonetic manager analyses phonetics for rhyme, pararhyme, & alliteration.
• Liaison manager analyses phonetics and words for liaison.
• Syllable manager analyses syllables and white space for syllabics.
• Metre manager analyses rhythm for metre.
• Stress manager analyses words, punctuation, rhythm and phonetics for emphasis.
• Form manager analyses metre, line breaks and stanzas to identify form.
• Phrase manager analyses sequences of phonemes for repetition & cliché.
• Semantic manager analyses words themselves, plus sequences of phonemes, for synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms, hypernyms, meronymies, & holonymies, for semantic relationships. It warns about euphemisms.

• Audio manager: recording / replay of recital, maybe auto-generation of reading using Microsoft voice stuff (yuk but useful)
• Locale manager: not just standard locales, but regional accents too. Must support Scots, for example.
• Update manager: looking for updates to software and central data;
• Distribution manager: distribution of user work

• Version manager: for version orientated import/export/load/save of files.
• Help manager: for dealing with user help.

Managers have sequences of stages. These stages are executed by threads in a threadpool.