[BRLTTY] Contraction error: Caledonia

[Keith Wessel]

Lee,

You had me scratching my head over this one, so I visited the North American
Braille Authority's web site to view the literary braille code. Rule 42 B
states that the EA contraction and the double-letter contractions BB, CC,
DD, FF and GG can't be used where the letters are separated by a primary
sylable division. The examples they give include preamble and readjust, but
I believe create fits into the same category.

Rule 34 seems to enforce my father's conclusions in my previous note:
Speaking in general terms about contractions, this rule states that
contractions may be used where the letters of the contraction would overlap
a minor and/or incidental syllable division.

With this said, it seems that a number of pieces of software missed rule 42:
it seems that using theEA sign in create is clearly crossing a primary
sylable division.

Sorry to be such a braille nerd, but I hope this helps.



-----Original Message-----
From: brltty-bounces at mielke.cc [mailto:brltty-bounces at mielke.cc]On
Behalf Of Lee Maschmeyer
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 3:36 PM
To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Contraction error: Caledonia


Actually, a contraction can cross a syllable boundary when going from an
unaccented to an accented syllable; hence the contraction in "create."

--
Lee Maschmeyer
<lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu>

"Be kind to your fur-bearing friends,
For a skunk may be somebody's brother."
     --Fred Allen


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