From the earliest days of creating transliterations, the symbol "-" has been used to indicate an interruption of the text by a drawing element, usually part of a plant.
This symbol has made it into the IVTFF format as: <->
However, its use has been quite inconsistent. Often but not always, it is preceded or followed by a period in order to indicate a word space. As I am more and more into automated processing, these relatively minor inconsistencies have become a bit annoying, so I decided to consolidate its use. That is: in general the use of word spaces.
This has led to a consolidation of the IVTFF format version 1.7, which I now call 2.0, but is fundamentally the same.
The main rules are:
<-> implies a word space.
<~>, which means vertical bad alignment (which is hardly used), implies <-> and therefore also a word space.
The four symbols for word spaces; comma, period, <-> and <~> shall always stand alone.
They shall only occur between words, never at the start or end of a line.
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This symbol has made it into the IVTFF format as: <->
However, its use has been quite inconsistent. Often but not always, it is preceded or followed by a period in order to indicate a word space. As I am more and more into automated processing, these relatively minor inconsistencies have become a bit annoying, so I decided to consolidate its use. That is: in general the use of word spaces.
This has led to a consolidation of the IVTFF format version 1.7, which I now call 2.0, but is fundamentally the same.
The main rules are:
<-> implies a word space.
<~>, which means vertical bad alignment (which is hardly used), implies <-> and therefore also a word space.
The four symbols for word spaces; comma, period, <-> and <~> shall always stand alone.
They shall only occur between words, never at the start or end of a line.
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