Hi folks,
When a number begins with an apostrophe the apostrophe should follow
the number sign:
,back 9 ! #'gjs ,i 0 alr "w+ "h4
This patch works for multi-digit numbers but I think that takes care
of 99% of the problem. People don't usually say:
My dad was born in '8.
They say,
My dad was born in '08.
Here are some examples taken from Web-Braille books:
( #'gf4 ,": 0 ,i :5 y pick$ me up1
8,t 0 9 #'fa10 sd ,morgan's h1d
bottle ( ,*at1u ,clos d',e/|rnel #'de4
matur+--ev5 bett} ?an ! #'bh's40
hunt$ ) on ! ,pungwe 9 #'ih--hm :om !
--
Lee Maschmeyer
"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear
to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than
what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
--Lewis Carroll
Index: Tables/en-us-g2.ctb
===================================================================
--- Tables/en-us-g2.ctb (revision 4769)
+++ Tables/en-us-g2.ctb (working copy)
@@ -42,6 +42,18 @@
always 9 24
always 0 245
+# elided numbers
+begnum '1 3456-3-1 the winter of '18
+begnum '2 3456-3-12 the '20s
+begnum '3 3456-3-14 back in '34
+begnum '4 3456-3-145 born in '44
+begnum '5 3456-3-15 written in '51
+begnum '6 3456-3-124 '67
+begnum '7 3456-3-1245 my '78 Olds
+begnum '8 3456-3-125 Orwell's '84
+begnum '9 3456-3-24 It's in the 90s. (Gotcha!) '91
+begnum '0 3456-3-245 My dad was born in '08.
+
# the letter a
lastlargesign a 1
always a 1
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