Re: [lojban] Re: Questions on isolating utterances before completely parsing

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 1:46 PM, symuyn <rbysamppi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In reply to Mr. Jones, I'd love to hear from xorxes, and other people,
> if eliding LIhU, etc. is "looked down upon". That would definitely
> shift my deciding toward prohibiting eliding LIhU, etc. But, if LIhU,
> etc. are elided *a lot*, then the text editor ought to be able to
> handle that.

They are not elided a lot, if only because they need very special
contexts in order to be elidable. I would make them non-elidable if it
was my choice.

>  But, is it worth making a text editor *at all* if it
> can't parse *all* Lojban, including Lojban that validly elides LIhU,
> etc.?

I think so, yes. But, there may be another problem you may also have
to deal with. Things like "zo ni'o" and ".i bu" are not sentence
separators. So, will they be handled by the lexer? But not every "zo
ni'o" sequence is a sumti. In "zo zo ni'o", the "ni'o" does start a
new paragraph. You may have to parse the whole thing anyway before you
can tell whether a given "ni'o", ".i", "lu", etc. is "active" or not.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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