jruberg/Wesfood — Issue #7: Oxford comma
Author: jruberg
Created: 2011-10-10 06:38:42+00:00
State: open

should really be able to automate to some degree. I don't think there's any systematic way to do this in English. even the most limited heuristic would assume things like "since I walked the dog, he and I were good pals" needed Oxford commas. so, at best, I can create a list of possible Oxford commas and then automatically insert them based on user input (like "is this an oxford comma? (Y/N) '...since I walked the dog, he and I were...'"). the really simple heuristic to find possible commas could be as simple as a possible comma for every occurrence of `and` or `or`.