This is a false positive on Nor which lint thinks is a conjunction
missing preceding punctuation. You can ignore it.
On 6/29/21 7:58 PM, David Grigg wrote:
>
> Well, here's one passage it flags. No dialog, no dashes, no quotes.
>
> <p>For my own part I wished for nothing better, and, rushing forward, I
> placed myself at the head of my new associates, and commenced flinging
> stones fast and desperately. The other party now gave way in their turn,
> closely followed by ourselves; I was in the van and about to stretch out
> my hand to seize the hindermost boy of the enemy, when, not being
> acquainted with the miry and difficult paths of the Nor Loch, and in my
> eagerness taking no heed of my footing, I plunged into a quagmire, into
> which I sank as far as my shoulders. Our adversaries no sooner perceived
> this disaster, than, setting up a shout, they wheeled round and attacked
> us most vehemently. Had my comrades now deserted me, my life had not
> been worth a straw’s purchase, I should either have been smothered in
> the quag, or, what is more probable, had my brains beaten out with
> stones; but they behaved like true Scots, and fought stoutly around
> their comrade, until I was extricated, whereupon both parties retired,
> the night being near at hand.</p>
>
> On Wednesday, 30 June 2021 at 10:53:23 UTC+10 Vince wrote:
>
> Well, a typo is more than just a mis-spelling—it’s short for
> typographical error, after all, which can be any number of things.
>
> The list of errors that t-042 covers is:
>
> * Dialog beginning with a lowercase letter
> * A space before a closing quote, or after an opening quote
> (either double or single)
> * Consecutive periods, e.g. ..
> * Mis-curled lsquo (usually a lsquo at the front of an elided
> word) or an lsquo without corresponding rsquo
> * Closing rdquo without opening ldquo
> * Consecutive comma period, e.g. ,.
> * Two quotations in one paragraph. “First quotation.” “Second
> quotation.”
> * Dashes instead of em-dashes. It’s looking for a dash in front of
> the|there|is|and|they|when.
> * Missing punctuation before a conjunction,
> e.g. But|And|For|Nor|Yet|Or
>
>
> Ideally, these would be separate errors, and each would show at
> least the text of the first error in the paragraph, but here we are.
>
>> On Jun 29, 2021, at 7:39 PM, David Grigg <
david...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In that case I think that the word "typo" is misleading. To me,
>> that's always meant a misspelling. Could we make it: "Possible
>> text error: lowercase dialog, consecutive periods, quote space". ?
>>
>> I'm still hunting for what is wrong in these passages!
>
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