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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 10:09:37 GMT
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- From: M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
- Subject: Avoiding unwanted capitalisation of i
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- Thanks for the recipes...
-
- Look, if I might raise a Notabenerial thing for a moment....
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- This follows on one of I E-Z's suggestions which doesn't work (which
- is itself an amazing thing).
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- Is there a way of putting a line into my .SPL such that the letter i
- will be uppercased to I but only where it is the first person singular
- pronoun? The reason is that I also have a line "ie i.e.," (plus
- italics, not shown here). When I run the speller, it turns into I.e.
- because the "i" is also surrounded by separators and is not
- distinguished from " i "
-
- In other words, the speller can't discriminate between " i " and " i."
- How cure this?
-
- This, incidentally, is sparked off by one of the files in NBGENRAL.ZIP
- (not, at the LISTSERV, GENERAL.ZIP as we have been told). This is a
- collection well worth picking up.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Mervyn.
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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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