[BRLTTY] Contraction error and patch: Rheingold

[Lee Maschmeyer]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 07:07:06PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2010/12/04 at 11:03 -0500]
> 
> >Although Rheingold isn't a word in the ordinary sense, it's famous
> >enough (the title of an opera by Wagner) that I think it deserves to
> >be contracted right. I have only one example of its use in my
> >Web-Braille collection:
> >
> >  8,n 9 ! l1/4 ,he ?"| .,rhe9gold 0 "s
> 
> I'm no authority, of course, but I completely disagree with using the "in" 
> contraction here. The reason is that the "ei" combination makes a very specific 
> sound in German, and, as I see it, that should take precedence.

Could it be that you have ae and ei mixed up? ae is a diphthong, so in
the name Furtwaengler we don't use the en sign. But I don't think
there's any stricture on the ei sound. I don't know about German, but
in English we do use the in sign after the e.

First I scanned my books for rhein spelled out and got zero hits. Then
I scanned for it with the in sign. I got one line from a German song
written in grade 2 English, which is an error I think. The rest are
from only two different books and all but the first are for the name
Rheinhart. But it does show that we can indeed use the in sign in this
context:

  8,n 9 ! l1/4 ,he ?"| .,rhe9gold 0 "s
 ,rhe9h>t l1n$ =w>d g5tly & fle%$ 8
   8,hell60 sd 8,pap0 ,rhe9h>t 9 a rude
 ,rhe9h>t t|<ly :isp}$4
   8,pap0 ,rhe9h>t drew 9 8 br1? %>ply4
 6"w80 sd 8,pap0 ,rhe9h>t4 8,x's n go+
   8,pap0 ,rhe9h>t look$ at hm )a -ical
 ,rhe9h>t4 8,>e y go+ 6talk ,lat9 6yr
   8,pap0 ,rhe9h>t cock$ 8 h1d on
 ,rhe9h>t repli$4 8,y don't ?9k !y're
 ,>?ur4 8,pap0 ,rhe9h>t look$ at hm
 c|rse10 sd 8,pap0 ,rhe9h>t1 impati5t
 ! c>riage %$1 8,pap0 ,rhe9h>t ti<t5$ !
   8,pap0 ,rhe9h>t turn$ 8 wry neck d{n
   ,pl1s$ ) !m bo?1 8,pap0 ,rhe9h>t
 blades4 ,! *imneys ( ,rhe9h>t's h|se
 d.ed2 lat} 8,pap0 ,rhe9h>t1 k9d &
 ,rhe9h>t1 ,george ,graves1 ,julius

-- 

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