Re: Matching opening and closing characters: How?

From: Mark Davis ⌛ (mark@macchiato.com)
Date: Fri Aug 07 2009 - 15:53:14 CDT

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    As a first pass, you could try taking the bidi_mirroring_glyph property, and
    look at the intersection of those with the open/close/start/end punctuation.
    However, be aware that quote marks are tricky, and don't just match the
    mirrored value.

    Mark

    On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:54, Hans Aberg <haberg@math.su.se> wrote:

    > On 7 Aug 2009, at 09:46, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
    >
    > Problem group 2: How to determine that two characters match?
    >>
    >> Assuming I have an opening and a closing character and know they're
    >> either parentheses or quotes: On what criteria could I base that they
    >> match or don't?
    >> E.g. ( would match ), but ( would not match ].
    >>
    >
    >
    > This is a parsing problem, as for example in math semi-open intervals may
    > be denoted by [x, y) and (x, y].
    >
    > Hans
    >
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