[austechwriter] Re: Query: Honorifics and other dotted abbreves / sentences
- From: "Steve Hudson" <cruddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:20:45 +1000
Brian suggested dotted abbreves have fallen out of favour - I more or less
agree which is why I am asking for "seen in the wild" responses. I dont care
aboout A.B.C. abbreves, they fail nicely anyway. Its the Mjr. Gen. Peter
Cosgrove sorta stuff that worries me.
As for Erisa's excellent examples below, your surmise is correct, you will
always be able to trick the software using atrocious grammar :-)
1 Bad grammar, but remotely possible. If I fix 2) then one could always
"Off" or "On" it, but myself and many others use char styles which negates
this.
2 should be "Doctor". This highlights the problem with punctuation inside or
outside of punc marks. I'll have to address that one.
3 - I could test for all caps in the last word and let it slide if its > 2
chars long...
4 - Dots as leaders, not my problem but perfectly plucked :-)
Craig Hadden suggested "not followed by a lower case letter" - that's
possible in some cases, might be good for reducing false positives. Sold!
He also suggested a 'mark anomalies' mode. This is a great idea, what I
could do is simply mark all periods failed in red highlight and passed in
green, user selectable presence of course. This way you can see yourself
with a quick glance where the errors lie and either recast or manually
re-adjust the provided figure.
Unless some .mil person chimes in with any that are used dotted regularly, I
think I'll leave it up to the user to populate the list with their own "I
know my dox have this in them." words and I'll just stick with Mrs as the
default.
I could even have each rule user selectable, so if you have no 2 char
abbreves you can skip that test and thusly pass Erisa's "Off and On".
I am thinking I'll include the double quote in the search pattern so that it
gets 'selected' onlong with our punc mark (DID I MISS ANY SENTENCE
TERMINATORS? UNICODE??? OTHER LANGUAGES???) and simply fail all "end of
sentence" catches of just quotes.
Steve Hudson
Word Heretic, Sydney, Australia
Tricky stuff with Word or words for you.
Email: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Erisa Linsky
Sent: Friday, 15 August 2003 8:49 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [austechwriter] Re: Query: Honorifics and other dotted abbreves
/ sentences
Examples that don't fit your sentence definitions.
The switch can be either Off or On.
People from the research dept should always be addressed as "Dr".
When the light turns red the foreman shouts "EVERYONE OUT!"
For "Other Agent" transfers you must enter the Agent Code in box
"A"........................turn to page 3.
Not all grammar is correct
Agreed?
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