[BRLTTY] Contraction error and patch: Low words followed by space hyphen space

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Wed May 13 16:23:51 EDT 2009


[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2009/05/05 at 04:50 -0400]

>When a low word is followed by two hyphens it quite properly reverts
>to its longer form - spelled out for words like his and was, less
>contracted for words like enough and were. But when such a word is
>followed by the alternate print form of expressing a dash - space
>hyphen space - the low word is still used. This is improper.
>
>"Be" had already been fixed. Here's a patch which should take care of
>the others. 

Thanks. It's now applied. I must've overlooked this one. It was still marked 
"new" in my inbox.

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