Re: RFC: words and word separators

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 22:10 +0000, Francis James Franklin wrote:
> I think numbers should be considered part of the word, although
> technically it's probably not a word and isn't there a preference to
> not spell-check words with numbers?
>
> Punctuation is complicated, but I would say that the hyphen should
> always separate words, i.e., full and time are separate words in your
> example.

Except that full-time is a word but things like full-up aren't. If it
isn't a hyphen used to split a word and it is in the middle then I would
say it should be considered as part of the word for spell checking.

e.g. see http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=31620&dict=CALD

see http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/091502.htm about en and em
dashes and hyphens. Hyphens occur in the middle of words, the others
have separate words on either side.

Regards,
Daniel

> On 7 Dec 2004, at 16:36, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> > Trying to fix 5454, I have run into a question which charcarcters
> > should be treated as part of word. Notably, should numbers be
> > considered part of word, and should connecting punctuation (eg the
> > dash 'full-time') be considered to be part of word?
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 8 00:03:40 2004