On 2013-02-02, Stephan Stiller stephan.stil...@gmail.com wrote:
And sometimes there is no absorption but simply a hard constraint
against semantic cooccurrence [sic about oo, which is really the
All of which may be ignored by people with mathematical or programming
training! One of the
(First a correction: By the parentheses absorbing commas I really meant
that they /include/ them. The verb absorb was a poor word choice given
that I used it a bit differently elsewhere in that same email.)
All of which may be ignored by people with mathematical or programming
training! One
These sorts of absorption rules are discussed in great detail in
Geoffrey Nunberg's The Linguistics of Punctuation, which I highly
recommend for anyone interested in this and related issues.
And sometimes there is no absorption but simply a hard constraint
against semantic
Stephan Stiller wrote:
I sometimes have a closing dash and sometimes not
And let's not forget that one often has what is semantically a pair of
parenthetical dashes, either the opening or the closing component of which is
eaten up by the beginning or the end of the sentence, resp. These
I don't think dashes should be mirrored at all however. (Many of my
dashes -- for example these -- are quite symmetrical; but others are
not -- I sometimes have a closing dash and sometimes not; but Emily
Dickinson is really the expert on the use of the dash:
I sometimes have a closing dash and sometimes not
/And/ let's not forget that one often has what is semantically a pair of
parenthetical dashes, either the opening or the closing component of
which is eaten up by the beginning or the end of the sentence, resp.
These punctuation rules are
Letter-like mathematical symbols are those like Product (Greek capital
Pi), Sum (Greek capital Sigma). Mirroring them by default would have
strange effects, even if they may be mirrored in formulas.
Lower-than and Higher-than symbols are not letter-like and are safe to
mirror, they behave like
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