[BRLTTY] Contraction error and patch: Graf-ter
Dave Mielke
dave at mielke.cc
Wed Nov 25 09:00:26 EST 2009
[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2009/11/24 at 22:35 -0500]
>First of all, awhile ago I submitted the word "jewsharp" to remove the
>s-h sign. It turns out this was a misspelling. Even though it came
>from a book (The Best of O. Henry) it has no validity. Even O. Henry
>corrected it for a later book. So I'm glad Dave didn't put that one
>in!
I just did. :-( I'll remove it.
>Now we come to a really puzzling one. O. Henry wrote a book called The
>Gentle Graf-ter. Except there should be no hyphen in the last word of
>the title. But if I leave out the hyphen anyone reading it in grade 2
>will see it as Graf. The reason? The sign for After. I had to change
>this from always to word. As far as I can tell the only thing this
>broke was the word Hereafter. So the attached patch fixes both after
>and hereafter.
whereafter, hereinafter, thereafter, thereinafter
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