Text Formatter User Guide for Narrative Products

92. Narrative Phrases - Phrase Definition

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Here is a phrase definition which has a setUpMethod, a wordMethod and optional phrase methods. The setUpMethod is called first at the phrase level. Its job is to create the sub-phrases based on the statistics available. The phraseMethods are called from the phrase level and the wordMethod is called at the sub-phrase level to create the words for each sub-phrase. We will dissect this definition to see how the methods build a phrase and learn about infrastructure helper methods which they employ.