From richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com Mon Aug 13 15:22:23 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 13 Aug 2001 22:22:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 33186 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2001 22:22:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Aug 2001 22:22:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO scrabble.freeuk.net) (212.126.144.6) by mta3 with SMTP; 13 Aug 2001 22:22:21 -0000 Received: from du-008-0248.freeuk.com ([212.126.151.248] helo=rrbcurnow.freeuk.com) by scrabble.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 15WQ6F-0002ou-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:22:20 +0100 Received: from richard by rrbcurnow.freeuk.com with local (Exim 2.02 #2) id 15WP9f-0000Ex-00; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:21:47 +0100 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:21:46 +0100 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: (C)V'{i|u}V Message-ID: <20010813222146.B646@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <20010812225206.D204@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i-nntp In-Reply-To: ; from cowan@mercury.ccil.org on Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 07:52:48AM -0400 From: Richard Curnow coi djan. pu danfu ki'e On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 07:52:48AM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > > > In all cases, a comma between vowels must effectively > > be discarded prior to legality checking and word type determination. > > Yes: commas never make a difference. > > > At the moment, I think jbofihe/vlatai ignore commas appearing between > > vowels and consonants. Is that the correct handling? > > Yes, and likewise between two consonants ("bang,r,blgaria", e.g.). > And just to verify 3 more corner cases relating to commas ... 1. How is more than one comma in a row treated? Is it equivalent to 1 comma, or illegal? 2. How is a comma at the start of a word treated? Is it ignored, or illegal? 3. How is a comma at the end of a word treated? Ignored or illegal? (Presumably the same answer as 2.) > > The algorithm in jbofihe/vlatai v0.37 is inconsistent with John's other mail > > about "ci,e", since it treats this as a cmavo. Once the handling of > > commas is agreed, I'll generate a patch to fix this. > > Yes, that's definitely an error. A fix will come soon. I think I understand the required behaviour (at last) apart from the above issue (and the point you re-directed to Lojbab.) mu'o mi'e ritcrd. -- R.P.Curnow,Weston-super-Mare,UK |lo samskiro'a cu simsa lo'e glefau http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/ |isa'e le xamgu cu tcetcexau ije richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com |le xlali cu xagmau lenu nomei