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Wiki page BPFK Section: Quotations as of 11 Feb 2005 changed

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On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 12:00:37PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> --- Philip Newton wrote:
> > (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.)

Actually, it's not debatable: the Quotations sectios says it must be
delimited by pauses, so this is a bug.

It shouldn't be a hard bug to fix.

My question is, does *any* space count as a pause, or only . ?

-Robin