Bug#1028077: apertium-eng-spa: Superfluous whitespace added

[Peter Blackman]

Package: apertium-eng-spa
Version: 0.8.1-2
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: peter at pblackman.plus.com

Dear Maintainer,

Translating English to Spanish leaves many extra spaces that upset the formatting.
Extra spaces are seen at the beginning, middle, and also between the end of some sentences and the full stop.

I attach chapter one of the saga of Pilar & Javier.


Translating to Catalan produced ....

1. Pilar té 25 anys. Està estudiant medicina en Tarragona i té molts amics.
Pilar és molt *likable i classe.

2. Està sortint amb un home jove Javier anomenat. Té 30 anys i feines en Barcelona.
Javier és un enginyer. a Javier li agrada sortir en els vespres, anar al cinema i coneixent amics.


But translating to Spanish produced .....

1. Pilar tiene 25 años .  Está estudiando medicina en Tarragona y tiene muchos amigos.
Pilar es muy *likable y clase.

2.  Está saliendo con un hombre joven llamó Javier.  Tiene 30 años y obras en Barcelona.
Javier es un ingeniero . A Javier le gusta salir en las tardes, yendo al cine y cumpliendo amigos.


However, a trivial solution to the formatting issue is to get to the Spanish via Catalan, ie. eng-cat + cat-spa.


Cheers,
Peter

P.S.  Minor capitalisation issue on the Catalan, 'A javier' has become 'a javier'.
     I don't speak the languages, but I assume that is wrong.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages apertium-eng-spa depends on:
ii  apertium            3.8.3-1+b1
ii  apertium-lex-tools  0.4.2-1+b1

apertium-eng-spa recommends no packages.

apertium-eng-spa suggests no packages.

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1. Pilar is 25 years old. She is studying medicine in Tarragona and has lots of friends.
Pilar is very likable and kind.

2. She is going out with a young man called Javier. He is 30 years old and works in Barcelona.
Javier is an engineer. Javier likes going out in the evenings, going to the cinema and meeting friends.

3. Pilar and Javier have been engaged for three years. 
They live in different cities but luckily Barcelona and Tarragona are not very far apart.

4. Pilar has the keys to Javier’s flat and Javier has the keys to Pilar’s apartment: they don’t have any secrets.

5. Today is Wednesday and Pilar has no lessons at the university. 
She wants to surprise Javier because today is a very special day. 
For Pilar, in fact, it is a very important day.