On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:13:09 +0000, Dave Fawthrop <hyphen@hyphenologist.co.uk> wrote: | |Finally guiguts is as it stands unusable on my texts. No doubt I will find |other equally drastic problems I have now played with gutcheck a bit more and worked out what some of the specifically *American* tests are which are not true in Yorkshire dialect are, or indeed *English* which translates to Queens English in American. Without the code or indeed a working knowledge of Perl, these are based purely on the gutcheck false errors found. My computer languages are C Fortran77, Basic, some Pascal, and a little Cobol. 1. Gutcheck objects to words consisting of one or more consonants without a vowel. These are common in Yorkshire dialect Th' T' etc.etc. the apostrophe indicates missing letters 2. Gutcheck objects to words of three vowels or more eea and similar words occur in Yorkshire dialect. 3. Gutcheck gets its knickers completely in the twist on single quotes ' It assumes that the single quote is speech, Whereas in English (Queens English in American) single quotes are uncommon and double quotes indicate speech. Hartley, especially uses double quotes for speech. It misinterprets apostrophes indicating missing unsounded letters as single quotes. 4. Gutcheck also gets its knickers in a twist about double quotes and objects to " " I have not worked out why, but no doubt that will give me more sleepless nights come to me at about 3 am :-( 5. Gutcheck also assumes that a line end is a paragraph end, which is not true in poetry, even American poetry. Speech commonly spans lines in all poetry, many lines in the poetry I work on, and may well span stanzas in Harleys work. No doubt I will find other systematic errors in the way Gutcheck works on my text. Sorry about the threading. Agent is sending things by email which I had meant to send to the list. :-( -- Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> "Intelligent Design?" my knees say *not*. "Intelligent Design?" my back says *not*. More like "Incompetent design". Sig (C) Copyright Public Domain