Jeff Bigler writes:
> ...is ABC's biggest handicap
>
which catches the eye so effectively that nobody seems to have gotten
beyond it to comment on his suggestions. Just for the record, here's
something:
>In the following example, I'm proposing & to be a delimiter for
>"the following characters up to the next white space represent a
>symbol".
>
That may run into trouble in beamed notes, which are themselves
delimited by spaces: if you find "&^ " in the middle of a beam, does the
space after the carat end the beam or just delimit the symbol? I suppose
you could say that you need a second space to end the beam, but this
works better for parsers than human readers---the difference between
one and two spaces is notoriously hard to spot. (Which pair of words
is double-spaced above?)
Cheers,
John Walsh
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