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sr #108629: Allow English language optional plurals

Submitter:  Ian Wood <drevicko>
Submitted:  Wed 13 Aug 2014 07:10:07 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  Wont Do
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed Operating System:  Mac OS

Thu 12 Mar 2015 04:23:17 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Oops.  I didn't even know this support forum existed.  I only knew about the bug tracker.

Personally, I think that usage is somewhat informal.  Moreover, allowing it would hide problems like typing f(s) outside of math mode which is what the warning is supposed to catch.  So for that reason I would rather not change the way it works now. 

I think this is the perfect case for turning off the warning in your chktexrc if you aren't worried about the f(s) case, or using a line suppression if you are:  The line

    the frog(s) went home         % chktex 36

will not print an error.

Ivan Andrus <gvol>
Group administrator
Wed 13 Aug 2014 07:10:07 PM UTC, original submission:  

A common usage in English is something like "the frog(s) went home", meaning we don't know if it's one or many frogs.

A quick internet search for this in English grammar only came up with a few posts on stackExchange's english language cite:

 http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11380/when-a-sentence-uses-an-optional-plural-should-the-rest-of-the-sentence-treat-i#11381

Currently, ChkTeX v1.7.1 (installed on Mac with brew) reports an error because there is no space before the open parentheses.

Ian Wood <drevicko>

 

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