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Wording it correctly #2

How do I find a given call within the program? I want to use a call but I don't know how the call is listed. i.e., I tried to do an 'offset wave alter and circulate turn the diamond 3/4' as a way to get out of triple waves. I feel the call is there but I just can't get the program to find it.

Calls such as the call described above are not in the database because I believe they are illegal.

Two comments:

Use 'offset waves' instead of 'offset wave', since the latter is a 4-dancer formation. If you have trouble getting the program to do 8-dancer 'offset wave' calls, this is the reason.
If you want to use 'offset waves alter & circulate turn the diamond 3/4', you must add it as a snapshot record.

Making the formation plural made a difference. However, I explored the snapshot database and found out that the database lists alter the wave as star n/m while I was trying to use turn the diamond.

This is a parsing difference. Both ways of saying the call should work. The parse database translates both ways of saying the aforementioned call into the same 'list of handles', so that internally the two phrases are identical.

You can edit the parse database to customize the program to allow it to understand how you say the call.

The demo version of CSDS does not allow the parse database to be modified.

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