Scott Meyers wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Wouldn't he have to do that for every occurrence, just in case one
occurrence overflowed a line without him noticing?
Unfortunately, yes.
The same is largely true of the "no-width no break" solution, except
that that approach is more amenable to global search and replace, I think.
The real problem here is that my definition of a word seems to be
different from OO's (my definition includes "+" signs, not to mention
underbars), and, as far as I know, there is no way to tell OO which
characters make up a word.
You can't, in general. You just have to deal with the fact that there
are always going to be exceptional and difficult cases. A problem that I
had a couple of years back, for example, was in transcribing an
18th-century play (William Dunlap's 1798 "André: a tragedy in five
acts"), which has a character named "M‘Donald". (Look again.)
--
John W. Kennedy
"When a man contemplates forcing his own convictions down another man's
throat, he is contemplating both an unchristian act and an act of
treason to the United States."
-- Joy Davidman, "Smoke on the Mountain"
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