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On Sunday 13 February 2005 15:00, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
> --- Philip Newton wrote:
> > > ;zoi (ZOI): Non-Lojban quotation. Creates a delimited
> > > non-Lojban quotation. The result treated as single Lojban word.
> > > "zoi" uses the following word as a delimiting word and quotes
> > > all further text until the same word is repeated.
> >
> > Does "word" need to be defined for this purpose? For example, would
> > {zoi ganai this work? I expect not. ganai}
> >
> > Or does it refer to "word" which is defined elsewhere?
>
> A word here is any member of a selmaho (including selmaho BRIVLA
> and CMENE).

What about {zoi kau'i ka'ia ki'i kau'i}?

> cmavo written together do not form a single word. {ganai} is
> always two words.
>
> The only exception that does count as one word is {y bu}, even when
> written separately.

What does {zoi ybu abu boi denpa bu ybu} parse as?

> > (More generally, what if the delimiting "word" occurs
> > within the text but not with a pause in front?
>
> For example {zoi ci mi klama reci zarci ci}? In this case, PEG
> _will_ see the ci in reci as a separate word. (Whether or not this
> is what we want is debatable.)

The parser shouldn't be lexing text inside a zoi-quote; it should only be
looking for the delimiter. If it sees {ci} as a separate word in {reci}, what
does it do with {zoi ci mi qlawa reci zarci ci}?

> > What about {zoi zar mi klama le zarci le briju zar}? (where there is a
> > pause but the word is longer than the delimiting word)
>
> Again, zar in zarci cannot be a word, so it is not seen by the parser
> as a word.

What about {zoi cire cilce carce jarco cu jarco reci cilce carce}?

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