fix #513

lojban · Oct 12, 2024 · 7409de7 · 7409de7
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       </indexterm>
       <indexterm type="general"><primary>diacritical marks</primary><secondary>as lerfu</secondary>
       </indexterm>
-      Many languages that make use of the Latin alphabet add special marks to some of the lerfu they use. French, for example, uses three accent marks above vowels, called (in English)
-      <quote>acute</quote>
-      ,
-      <quote>grave</quote>
-      , and
-      <quote>circumflex</quote>. Likewise, German uses a mark called
-      <quote>umlaut</quote>
-      ; a mark which looks the same is also used in French, but with a different name and meaning.
+      Many languages that make use of the Latin alphabet add special marks to some of the lerfu they use. The diacritics used in French orthography are the acute accent (<quote>é</quote>; accent aigu), the grave accent (<quote>è</quote>; accent grave), the circumflex (<quote>ê</quote>; accent circonflexe), the diaeresis (<quote>ë</quote>; tréma), and the cedilla (<quote>ç</quote>; cédille). Diacritics have no effect on the primary alphabetical order. Likewise, German uses a mark called <quote>umlaut</quote> (e.g. <quote>ä</quote>); a mark which looks the same is also used in French, but with a different name and meaning.
     </para>
 
     <para>
       <indexterm type="general"><primary>diacritical marks</primary><secondary>problem of position</secondary>
       </indexterm>
       These marks may be considered lerfu, and each has a corresponding lerfu word in Lojban. So far, no problem. But the marks appear over lerfu, whereas the words must be spoken (or written) either before or after the lerfu word representing the basic lerfu. Typewriters (for mechanical reasons) and the computer programs that emulate them usually require their users to type the accent mark before the basic lerfu, whereas in speech the accent mark is often pronounced afterwards (for example, in German
-      <quote>a umlaut</quote>
-      is preferred to
-      <quote>umlaut a</quote>).
+      <quote>a umlaut</quote> is preferred to <quote>umlaut a</quote>).
     </para>
 
     <para>