Would putting the first element in <section type="postblank"> or the second element in <section type="preblank"> rather than <section type="standard"> work? Then one of the elements is distinct in combination from what it is on its own, making it postblank or preblank will insert an extra space after or before, respectively.
Daniel On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 5:01 AM Hèctor Alòs i Font <hectora...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In Occitan, in many cases the spelling rules require the elision of the > beginning of pronouns and determiners, e.g. "que o > que'u". There are also > numerous cases of fusions, e.g. `de lo > del` or `de lo > deu` or `de lo > > deth` depending on the variety of Occitan. If we add to this the great > (sub)dialectal variety of Occitan, the result is almost a combinatorial > explosion. At present, we have hundreds of lines in the Occitan monodix to > try to deal with them, but it is not enough. > > One of the embarrassing problems with this is the issue I have had this > morning: `çò que’u`. `çò que` is one of the many forms of a given relative > pronoun (but it can be also analysed as the pronoun `çò` followed by the word > `que` that may be here at least a kind of adverb). The issue is that we don't > have a definition in the Occitan monodix for `çò que’u` as `çò que` + `u` > (nor as `çò` + `que` + `u`), using </j> (it is not in the hundreds we have). > The result is that the translation has been done almost correctly, but the > translations of `çò que` and `u` have been put together without a blank, > since there is not a blank in the input. That's why we have to define so many > combinations using `</j>`: > > ``` > $ echo "00192. Lo privilègi de l’editorialista qu’es de poder escríver **çò > que’u** passa peu cap." | apertium -d . oci_gascon-fra > 00192. Le privilège de l'éditorialiste est de pouvoir écrire **ce quela** > passe pour la tête. > ``` > > Does anyone have any ideas on how not to solve this "the hard way" (as we > have done so far)? > > Hèctor > _______________________________________________ > Apertium-stuff mailing list > Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list Apertium-stuff@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
