When an apostrophe is used to make an English noun a possessive, if the noun
already ends with the letter s - the apostrophe is placed after the s.
There are even some rare exceptions such as the singular noun cockatrice - in
which the possessive just has an apostrophe but no letter s afterwards
On 2023-12-19 04:26, Matěj Cepl wrote:
On Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 2:17 AM CET, Timothy Allen wrote:
2. Apostrophes
In English, the apostrophe used for possession (“the boy’s train”) and
omission (“don’t let’s start") is traditionally set with the same
character used as the closing single quote, so
On Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 1:30 AM CET, Timothy Allen wrote:
> As a data point, when I was writing scripts for manipulating and
> updating the BSB module, I found the `xml.etree.ElementTree` module in
> the Python standard library to be many times faster than the SAX API.
> The SAX API is a perhaps
On Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 2:17 AM CET, Timothy Allen wrote:
> I tried running it over my BSB module, and I hit problems fairly
> quickly, some of which are more easily solved than others.
>
> 1. No support for language “en”
>
> This was easy enough to handle, there's a configuration variable near
>
On 19/12/23 00:06, Matěj Cepl wrote:
I have decided not to rely on very kind help by David
with his Windows tools and I have written (hopefully)
completely platform neutral pure Python 3 script for checking
pairwise-characters. So, far it was used only for fixing
https://gitlab.com/crosswire-bibl
On 19/12/23 01:45, Matěj Cepl wrote:
2. I use SAX API (xml.sax from the standard library) and it seems
to me like better suited for the Bible processing than the
traditional DOM (or LXML) interface. It nicely hides away all
hard work going on in the background and let me work only on
Ok, all good then, we are covered, this is a different use case.
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 3:46 PM Matěj Cepl wrote:
> On Mon Dec 18, 2023 at 2:38 PM CET, Kristof Szabo wrote:
> > I wrote some time back https://github.com/krisek/sword-test, with quite
> a
> > few test cases, which, I think, cove
On Mon Dec 18, 2023 at 2:38 PM CET, Kristof Szabo wrote:
> I wrote some time back https://github.com/krisek/sword-test, with quite a
> few test cases, which, I think, covers your use case as well.
Couple of differences on the first look:
1. Functionally, I prefer my script which stops when the fi
Hi Matěj,
I wrote some time back https://github.com/krisek/sword-test, with quite a
few test cases, which, I think, covers your use case as well.
I was in touch with Dom on this at the time, but somehow the discussion
stopped how to include these in the module build pipeline.
If you think it is
Hello,
I have decided not to rely on very kind help by David
with his Windows tools and I have written (hopefully)
completely platform neutral pure Python 3 script for checking
pairwise-characters. So, far it was used only for fixing
https://gitlab.com/crosswire-bible-society/CzeCEP/-/issues/2 and
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