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- From: M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
- Subject: Bramleys, cider, Calvados, and (in passing!) NB
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- What, in the name of the Sacred Dragonfly, is apple crisp? Is this
- what is known here as apple crumble?
-
- Bramleys are to the making of cider what NB is to the writing of a
- note for the milkman. Cider apples are generally unattractive, small,
- sugary things which are not great eating but pulp down nicely because
- they're so juicy. Bramleys are magnificent, large, green, handsome,
- juicy, crisp, sharp, smooth-skinned.... The Schwartzeneggers of the
- apple world...? We use them as cookers, because they're a bit too
- sharp for some tastes as eaters (Russetts, Newton Wonders, Coxes,
- Blenheim Oranges and wow! Tideyman's Early Worcesters - family gave me
- a tree for a birthday present two years ago in place of one we lost in
- a gale, and it's coming on stream this autumn!!!). But Calvados....
- now there's a thought. Devon, incidentally, is Britain's apple
- country. Or was, till the European Community came along and forbade
- the commercial growing and marketing of the non-standard
- non-Euro-apple.... It's absolutely horrible seeing old,
- well-established apple-orchards being torn up because of EC
- regulations... :-(
-
- But we must not be political....
-
- In NBGENRAL.ZIP there's a great file by I E-Z on queries and answers.
- He solved, up to a point, something which bothers me: I like an AU
- default (capitalising the first letter of a new sentence
- automatically); the problem this causes, as he discusses, is that e.g.
- becomes e.G. Answer - put "eg e.g." as a line in a personal
- dictionary. Yaaay. But I also have a line "i I" (to capitalise the
- personal pronoun). This means that i.e. is constantly turned into I.e.
- each time I run the spelling checker. The answer, I think, is to put
- the line into the dictionary so that (space)i(space) will become
- (space)I(space) in order to distinguish it from .i. which would be
- left alone. I can't figure out how to insert this line into the
- dictionary so that this works... the trouble is, the spelling checker
- does not recognise, as far as I can make out, a space as the first
- character in the line.
-
- If anyone actually followed all that, are there any suggestions?
-
- Incidentally, i.e. and e.g. can be italicised by the spelling checker
- from ie and eg. Great. The problem is that incredible lengths of MDRV
- and MDNM strings build up; avoid this by running the "strip
- superfluous modes" command now and then.
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- Mervyn E. Bennun, Law Department, University of Exeter
- Phone: (+44) (0) 392 263 161
- Postal Address: Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, Devon, U.K.
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