Re: Suggestion for English rule - masters thesis > master's thesis

2016-06-22 Thread Purodha Blissenbach
egree > If your master wrote it : "my master’s thesis”, because the thesis > is owned (hence the possessive apostrophe) by the “master" > > Both could be valid English. Which version is correct would depend on > the context and desired meaning. > > Cheers, > >

Re: Suggestion for English rule - masters thesis > master's thesis

2016-06-22 Thread Purodha Blissenbach
Imho, it depends. If you wrote it : "my master's thesis" If your master wrote it : "my masters thesis" but I am not a native English speaker :-) Purodha On 22.06.2016 18:33, Marco A.G.Pinto wrote: > Hello! > > Using MS Word 2016 I typed "blah blah my masters thesis" and Word > suggested me to

Re: Rule to check common mistakes in URL

2015-10-24 Thread Purodha Blissenbach
On 24.10.2015 11:29, Dominique Pellé wrote: > Purodha Blissenbach <puro...@blissenbach.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>>http:/www.google.com (there should be 2 slashes after >>> protocole) >> >> This is valid, at least protocolwise. I r

Re: Rule to check common mistakes in URL

2015-10-23 Thread Purodha Blissenbach
Hi, >http:/www.google.com (there should be 2 slashes after > protocole) This is valid, at least protocolwise. I refers to a directory /www.google.com on the current server. Good warning, of course, if there is at least a dot in there. Purodha On 24.10.2015 05:31, Dominique Pellé

Re: Behavior of non-breaking space U+00A0 in LanguageTool

2015-10-12 Thread Purodha Blissenbach
Hi, you put a nbsp for instance between a figure and the unit, or in some languages between two part of an abbreviations, or between the (short) 1st word of a sentence such as an article and the 2nd word, etc. Purodha On 12.10.2015 14:33, Andre Couture wrote: > Hi > I did not follow the

Re: new syntax available

2015-10-09 Thread Purodha Blissenbach
On 10.10.2015 06:16, Dominique Pellé wrote: > Daniel Naber wrote: > >> On 2015-10-09 07:32, Dominique Pellé wrote: >> >>> I suppose that I care more than most because I only use LT to check >>> text files where the situation is frequent. >> >> I think normalizing the text makes sense if: >> 1)

Re: new syntax available

2015-10-08 Thread Purodha Blissenbach
On 08.10.2015 06:59, Dominique Pellé wrote: > Daniel Naber wrote: > >> On 2015-10-07 06:41, Dominique Pellé wrote: >> >> Hi Dominique, >> >> thanks for your feedback. > > One more remark: > > If I replace a rule like... > > > foo > bar > > > ... into ... > > foo bar > > ... then the regexp

Subjects of post to this mailinglist

2015-08-29 Thread Purodha Blissenbach
Dear list admins, is it possible to have a string like [language tool] or maybe something shorter prefixed to the subjects of mailing list posts? Many lists have that, and at least to me it is really helpful in quickly understanding what is what in my 100+ daily e-mails. Thank you and

Re: Subjects of post to this mailinglist

2015-08-29 Thread Purodha Blissenbach
On 29.08.2015 14:06, Daniel Naber wrote: On 2015-08-29 12:02, Purodha Blissenbach wrote: is it possible to have a string like [language tool] or maybe something shorter prefixed to the subjects of mailing list posts? Many lists have that, and at least to me it is really helpful in quickly