Re: Automatic file replacement in XYwin

["Patricia M. Godfrey" PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx]

> Robert wrote:
> > Believe me, displaying a fixed amount of contextual material produces
> > a more
> > informative result *overall* than displaying the current sentence
> > (which can be
> > very short or ridiculously long, and looks terrible -- that was my
> > starting
> > point, and I dumped it posthaste).

Makes a lot of sense. For one thing, "sentences" would be meaningless in
code. For another, how could any algorithm (even one crafted by Robert)
determine a sentence in English? You cannot just search forward and back
for a period followed by a capital letter. Oh, it might work 75 percent
of the time, but suppose you had a lot of proper names with abbreviated
titles: Sen. Joe Schmoe, Adm. Sir Richard Flounder, etc.?

That, by the by, is why grammar checkers are a bad joke. Spell checkers
are useful, if one is aware of their limitations, but grammar checkers?
Out upon them, fie upon them!

Patricia M. Godfrey