Hi Clark, That's certainly true for English, and I was not aware of the possibility to put a comma after "e.g.". Unfortunately that will solve only part of my problem because I write my documentation in both English and German, and comma rules are very different in German (and more complicated and strict as in English, I'm afraid). We have a lot of "z.B." with no way to put a comma behind.
Thanks anyway, Hans Am Freitag, den 21.09.2012, 11:49 -0400 schrieb Clark Karr: > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > This is really a grammatical issue. In many cases, you should put a comma > after "e.g.". For example, your sentence could be "In a sentence, e.g., this > one, 'this' is reported ...". > > Another example: "The political parties are at it again; e.g., the > conservatives say "bla bla bla" and the liberals say "Bla Bla Bla". > > Commas are "half stops" and indicate a slight pause when speaking. One way > of checking for comma placement is to say the sentence out loud and notice > where the slight pauses occur. A grammar book, whose title I've forgotten, > suggests punctuation is the notation for how to "sing a sentence"; an > interesting insight, I thought. > > You may also use a colon to introduce a list; e.g.: > - a jug of wine, > - a loaf of bread, and > - thou. > > Clark > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of arcasys > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 9:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [XXE] Spell checking and abbreviations > > The spell checker works very nice. However there's a tiny problem bugging me: > In a sentence, e.g. like this one, the 'like' word would be reported as > misspelled because it follows a full stop. > Of course I can choose to ignore capitalising and only check this in a > session once I'm done but is there another possibility to get rid of these > marks? > > Thanks, > Hans > > > > Kassensysteme > Warenwirtschaft > Vernetzung > __________________________ > Hans Artmann > Flüggenstr. 10 > 80639 München > Tel +49 89 17095721 > Fax +49 89 17095722 > Mob +49 151 17413090 > www.arcasys.de > > Ust-Id: DE261339573 > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > > > > -- > XMLmind XML Editor Support List > [email protected] > http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support Kassensysteme Warenwirtschaft Vernetzung __________________________ Hans Artmann Flüggenstr. 10 80639 München Tel +49 89 17095721 Fax +49 89 17095722 Mob +49 151 17413090 www.arcasys.de Ust-Id: DE261339573
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