Re: Speech / sentences [repost]

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 05:17 PM 2/20/01 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>Hello,
>while studying supp-lan I discovered I made an awfull error,
>a wrong assumption, about the meaning of sentence and subsentence;
>I *thought* that it referred to speech ---what characters say
>in a novel---, while it referred to (guess!)
>subsentences ---like this one----, and thus made wrong definitions
>about Italian. This also refers to what I had written quite some
>time ago, about the need to replicate the "start-of-speech" at
>each new paragraph. So:
>
>1) I will revert leftsentence & company to the correct ones
>for Italian;
>2) what are the commands to set the per-language spacing
>after the left(sub)sentence and before the right(sub)sentence
>mark? Is it possible to make this spacing non-breakable?
>2) I need support for leftspeech, rightspeech, leftsubspeech,
>righsubspeech and appropriate typesetting options (like
>automatically repeating leftspeech at each new paragraph
>in Italian) in the kernel (since it looks that all the
>|| special chars are taken, speech could maybe be signaled
>by |<<| and |>>| ... ). What about it?

We can pick up this tread when the encoding works well, since then we can
map 'm onto nice names. Remind me to do that

Hans
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