Grammar questions for documentation

Cristian Marchi cri79 at libero.it
Wed Dec 1 14:04:28 EST 2010


I'm working on some sed [1] commands that do automatically some grammar 
corrections to xml file (for documentation). For example I've a command 
that checks (and if false corrects it) if after a period there are two 
spaces, one removes the white spaces at the end of a line, one checks 
and corrects for uppercase char after a period and so on....

Now I would like to know what you think about some of this grammar and 
terminology conventions:

- after a full stop (period) in the text there are always two spaces 
before the following words (this is valid for english and not for other 
languages i.e. Italian). [2]
- after a , ; : punctuation there is only a space before the following word.
- toolbar, titlebar, menubar, summarybar, statusbar and not tool bar, 
title bar etc... [3]
- the period after a phrase beetween parenthesis is inside or outside 
the parenthesis?

If you have other cases please let me know so I could implement a 
command for them.

All this command could be collected in a little script that runs from 
time to time in the documentation for cleaning purposes.

Sorry if this topic is not really accounting or GnuCash related...

Regards
Cristian


[1] http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop
[3] 
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-style-guide/stable/window-terminology.html.en




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