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Re: minor nits on cowan's notes on pauses



3 Sep 90 22:25:45 EDT (Mon), from: cbmvax!snark.thyrsus.com!lojbab@uunet.UU.NET
> The confusion no doubt arises because I mark the pause by convention with a
> period after COI when followed by a cmene (name).  I do so because my word
> processor spelling checker rejects ANY word starting with a period, and I
> have enough trouble dealing with the period-pause before sentences (".i")
> and attitudinals (".ui")

I have the same problem.  My solution is to use the colon for the 
pause-letter.  I also find that the colon is more visible.  

		-- jimc