[lojban] Re: lojgloss and linebreaks

["Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Marjorie Scherf <skaryzgik@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sometimes
>
> people
>
> write
>
> like
>
> this.

Very rarely. Usually vertically formatted things only use single line
breaks for individual stanzas/whatnots.

> If someone had typed that way, for whatever pretty (or not) typesetting
> reasons they had, and then copy/pasted it into the parser/glosser, and that
> glosser puts in a {ni'o} at every double line break, then it would all get
> treated like separate sentences, even if, as in my example, it really is
> intended only to be one.

I almost certainly would not enter any {ni'o} into the text sent to
the parser. All my manipulations, except for changing some characters
to space, happen to the parse tree, or by modifying the parser itself.
And what I'm thinking of here is detecting double line breaks only at
the end of statements, so your text above (if it were in lojban) would
still parse as a single statement.

Chris Capel
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