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Lithuanian (lietuvių)

Code lt. Not reviewed by a native speaker.

This page is generated by bun run docs:languages from the pack in src/core/lang/lt.ts. Do not edit it by hand: src/lang-docs.test.ts fails when it is out of date. A no-break space is shown as ~.

Quotation

A quotation nested deeper than the levels listed starts over from the first.

Dashes

Spaces

• One-letter words kept with the next word: none.
• Short words kept with the next word, in a title (the opt-in rule space.short-word): none.
• A no-break space between a number and %: yes.
• A no-break space between a number and € after it: no.

Abbreviations

Numbers

Groups of three are separated by ~, the decimal mark is ,.

Sources

• https://emokykla.lt/upload/files/2024/07/08/liet-k-skyryba.pdf
• https://publications.europa.eu/resource/cellar/01ed788a-d266-11ec-a95f-01aa75ed71a1.0012.01/DOC_1 (Leidinių rengimo vadovas, Lithuanian PDF of 19 April 2022, read as text with pdfjs: 4.2.3 teksto rengimas (kabutės, apsaugotieji tarpai, skaičiai), 6.4 skyrybos ženklai ir tarpai, 6.5 skaitmenų skyryba, 10.1.4 brūkšnys, 10.1.5 brūkšnelis, 10.1.7 kabutės, 10.1.8 tarpas, 10.3.9 sutrumpinimai ir santrumpos)
• https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-specifications/character-encoding/use-of-quotation-marks-in-the-different-languages (Publications Office, quotation marks per language: lt „…“ at all three levels)

Notes

Dialogue: dialogue shown as it happens is set with brūkšniai, retold speech with quotes (A. Drukteinis, Lietuvių kalbos skyryba, 2020, rule 4-1). Quotation: the ISG (4.2.3: “Visi lygmenys „…“”, and the Publications Office table) writes „…“ at every level, so a quotation inside a quotation is „…„…“…“ here. Wikipedia and some Lithuanian publishers write ‚…‘ for the inner level; that was not read in a Lithuanian authority and is not implemented. The ISG note that cultivar names take single quotes (‘…’) is not implemented: the engine cannot tell a cultivar name from a nested quotation. The ISG example 10.1.7 that drops the inner closing mark at the end of a sentence („kilo ginčų dėl bendrovės „Microsoft“.) is a punctuation choice the engine leaves alone. The Lithuanian State Commission (Valstybinė lietuvių kalbos komisija) was not consulted: nothing here comes from it, and the ISG is the only source read. Lithuanian is not covered by the other typography tools compared in bench/, so nothing was cross-checked against them. Dash: ISG 10.1.4 says Lithuanian institutional texts use the en dash, not the em dash, spaced on both sides; the pack sets sentenceDash to U+2013. Dialogue lines that start with a dash (10.1.4 d) take the dialogue dash, set from Drukteinis above. Not implemented, not verified: the ISG gives no list of one-letter words (į, o, ir is not one letter) to keep off the end of a line, so there are no orphans; elisions: none read; the abbreviation lists are those of ISG 10.3.9 and 10.1.5 that are written in several parts (t. y., t. t., š. m., a. k., b. k., l. e. p., e. p., A. V.) or that introduce a number or name (Nr., dr., p., pav., tel.), and are only a part of the list; a number before its measure (40 mln., 17 val., 100 m.) is not bound because the abbreviation field only binds what follows an abbreviation; the ISG shows € only as the code EUR (5 000 EUR), so the pack sets percentSpace and not currencySpace (49€ stays 49€). Numbers: ISG 6.5 and 4.2.3 give a comma for decimals and a space between groups of three; 10.1.5 says the space is a fixed one; the ISG groups from four digits in the table of budget data (1 326,1) but the engine groups from five digits, as it does in every language.

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