Allowing square brackets in %eng

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Kevin,
    We are not currently considering the %eng line as anything that is tightly defined.  There is no
expectation of one-to-one alignment and so on. If you want to
create your own system of codes there and then avoid CHECK altogether, you can just rename it to %xeng
and CHECK and Chatter will not look at it at all.  However, the change you suggest involves tinkering with the basic mechanism of processing
square brackets which doesn't seem like a good idea.  Alternatively, you could just have xxx's and that
should work okay and then you could leave this as %eng.

-- Brian

On Mar 13, 2012, at 6:55 PM, Kevin Donnelly wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have a query about how depfile.cut handles square brackets.
> 
> In a few cases we have things like:
> la casa de xxx
> which we're translating on the %eng tier as:
> [...]'s house
> 
> However, CHECK doesn't like this:
> ====
> Illegal use of delimiter in a word.
> Or a SPACE should be added after it.
> ====
> 
> The current %eng line is:
> %eng:	* [*] "* +... +/. +!? +//. +/? +"/. +". +" +^ +< +, ++ +//? +..? #
> I'm assuming that [*] means "any character surrounded by square brackets", and 
> that the real problem is (as the second line of the error says) that there is 
> no space between [...] and 's in "[...]'s house".
> 
> Is there any way to allow an optional space on either side of the brackets?  I 
> tried:
> *[*]*
> but that just gave me a different error:
> ====
> Symbol is not declared in the depfile(s).
> ====
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Pob hwyl / Best wishes
> 
> Kevin Donnelly
> kevindonnelly.org.uk
> 
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