[austechwriter] Re: Query: Honorifics and other dotted abbreves / sentences
- From: Ana Young <ana_young2000@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:27:28 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Steve,
I do not have it with me at work (still at home) but,
from memory, the latest edition of the Australian
Style Guide has a list of honorifics.
Hope this helps somewhat.
Cheers,
Ana
--- Steve Hudson <cruddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am putting the finishing touches on a sentence
> finder for Word. I need a
> list of _common_ abbreviations that are commonly
> 'dotted' with an
> immediately suceeding period.
>
> I imagine the .mil kiddies have a whole bunch of
> honorifics like Lt. Gen.
> and the like, so I figured the best bet was to ask
> those people with access
> to docs with them to suggest some 3 character or
> larger common dotted
> abbreves.
>
> I am planning on having specialist 'dictionaries' of
> these terms
> 'hard-coded' in as I can't see the list being THAT
> extensive to warrant the
> use of an external config file, unlike Trivial
> Words. The collection of
> words is exposed to the API user to modify if
> required.
>
> In writing this, I came up with my 'rules of thumb'
> for sentence breaks.
> Perhaps some of our cunning linguists can suggest
> modifications.
>
> 'Rule 1: Sentence must end with a .?! or elipses, or
> any combination thereof
> 'Rule 2: Sentence must end more than 1 char into doc
> 'Rule 3: Sentence must end with a lower case
> character
> 'Rule 4: Must be succeeded by a space, double quote
> or a ctrl char
> 'Rule 5: Last word of sentence cannot be two chars
> long with first char
> capped
> ' to take care of common abbreviations, Mr.
> Dr. Lt. etc
> 'Rule 6: Last word of sentence cannot be a dotted
> abbrev
>
> Steve Hudson
>
> Word Heretic, Sydney, Australia
> Tricky stuff with Word or words for you.
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