Cristian-- I'm a little wary about global changes such as this.
E.g., can you be certain that the character following a period is capitalized? (note the exception I provided in this sentence [i.e., you can't guarantee that this character is always capitalized]). Similarly, while it was once a convention to have two spaces following a period at the end of a sentence, I believe that this is not so much the case any more--especially since the HTML age, where HTML drops extra spaces. David --- On Wed, 12/1/10, Cristian Marchi <cr...@libero.it> wrote: > From: Cristian Marchi <cr...@libero.it> > Subject: Grammar questions for documentation > To: "GNUCASH devel" <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> > Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 11:04 AM > I'm working on some sed [1] commands > that do automatically some grammar corrections to xml file > (for documentation). For example I've a command that checks > (and if false corrects it) if after a period there are two > spaces, one removes the white spaces at the end of a line, > one checks and corrects for uppercase char after a period > and so on.... > > Now I would like to know what you think about some of this > grammar and terminology conventions: > > - after a full stop (period) in the text there are always > two spaces before the following words (this is valid for > english and not for other languages i.e. Italian). [2] > - after a , ; : punctuation there is only a space before > the following word. > - toolbar, titlebar, menubar, summarybar, statusbar and not > tool bar, title bar etc... [3] > - the period after a phrase beetween parenthesis is inside > or outside the parenthesis? > > If you have other cases please let me know so I could > implement a command for them. > > All this command could be collected in a little script that > runs from time to time in the documentation for cleaning > purposes. > > Sorry if this topic is not really accounting or GnuCash > related... > > Regards > Cristian > > > [1] http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop > [3] > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-style-guide/stable/window-terminology.html.en > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
