Re: Center Lyric Syllables (ignoring punctuation)

[Alexander Kobel]

On 09/29/2013 08:47 PM, Thomas Morley wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
>
> 2013/9/29 Alexander Kobel <address@hidden>:
> > On 09/29/2013 07:52 PM, Alexander Kobel wrote:
> > > On 09/28/2013 11:23 PM, Thomas Morley wrote:
> > > > To the author of the new LSR-snippet "Center Lyric Syllables (ignoring
> > > > punctuation)"
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks for your code.
> > > >
> > > > I did some slightly reformatting of code and description.
> > > >
> > > > It's now approved as
> > > > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=888
> > >
> > >
> > > Really nice.
> > > For some reason, I can log in, but not modify the snippet; I'm not sure
> > > if it's supposed to be that way.
>
> Afaik, only people with permission to edit the LSR can change a
> snippet once it is approved. As long as it is unapproved the author
> can work on it.

Ah, that makes sense. I remember that I could modify snippets some time 
ago, but they were my "own".

> Are you the author of said snippet?

No, I'm not. I always resolved this problem by custom ugly tweaks for … 
and, sometimes, quotes, but I never came up with an elegant one one-shot 
solution. That's why I'm so thrilled about this little function.
 I also understood that, technically, you are the author of the snippet 
in LSR, but now I feel that you merely approved it?

> > > Could you modify the space-set to
> > > include the Unicode ellipsis character (…)? I can also imagine there's a
> > > lot more to go in there as well, like French-style quotation marks,
> >
> > … Oh, and, of course, German ones: „ and ‚. Basically, everything from this
> > list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark_glyphs
>
> In the end that would be a very long list of characters and some of
> them are of special meaning in guile.
> Might be not that easy as expected.

I agree, although I don't expect Guile problems for anything but plain 
ASCII prime and double prime, but I might be wrong.
It's easy to tweak for people who want to use it, anyway; those were 
just the glyphs for which I assume that everybody agrees they should be 
in there. YMMV, though.


Best,
Alexander