Re: Lout parsing

[Blake McBride]

At 02:22 AM 2/18/96 +0000, address@hidden wrote:

>What would the discussants propose for the following sentence?
>
>       If every "end-of-sentence" stop always meant end-of-sentence
>       (Heaven forbid!) then we would have trouble with sentences like
>       this.
>
>(The point being that in troff the ")" is end-of-sentence transparent, so
>that the "!" is recognisable as an end-of-sentence stop; but in the above
>as typed the fact that it's in mid-line suppresses that interpretation.)

My proposed algorithm wouldn't have any problem with the above because 
the "!" isn't followed by a space, tab or newline.

Ending input lines at the end of sentences is a real pain, IMO.

--blake

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