[BRLTTY] Contraction errors and patch: Methodistical and friends

[Lee Maschmeyer]

Hi all,

In words like contradistinction (currently done right) you can't use
the st sign because the base word is distinction and you use the dis
sign there. But in words like Methodist (also currently done right)
you do use the st. I've tried to straighten out some convolutions in
this stuff.

Aspidistra: I can't find any uses of this word among my Web-Braille
books so I don't know how the Library of Congress would
rule. Currently brltty does not use the st sign. I'm suggesting that
it should.

Methodistic: In brltty, although Methodist and Methodists use the st
sign, Methodistical doesn't. Though I can't find any examples of this
either, the inconsistency seems wrong and the patch fixes it.

Kurdistan: Here are some examples:

 _h travell$ "? ! un"kn "ps ( ,kurdi/an
 ,kurdi/an4 ,y c only see !m :5 x's v
 ,turke/an "? ,kurdi/an 6,iraq4 ,dr4
 ,ne/orians ( ,kurdi/an & o!r ,ea/}n

Prounion: Currently this uses the ou sign. It shouldn't. Here are
examples:

prounion   twofold   freedom   *angea#
.ou _c 2 us$ 9 .prounion2 &! sign = .st
pro-union prounion

-- 

Lee Maschmeyer

"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear
to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than
what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
     --Lewis Carroll
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