A paragraph ending without 。
missing-final-periodon by default (info)Japanese
A paragraph ending without 。 in a document whose other paragraphs end with it
Example
How to fix
Add 。 at the end of the paragraph.
Why it matters
In a Japanese document whose paragraphs end with 。, one paragraph that stops without it (〜しました) reads as unfinished, or as pasted in from elsewhere. chaff does not pick a side; it points at the paragraphs that differ from most of the document. Short lines such as captions, lines leading into a list with ：, notes, lines laid out with runs of spaces, and lines ending in a noun (an item in noun style) are not sentences and are not counted.
What it does not flag
Only in Japanese documents. Lines under fifteen characters, lines ending in ：, note lines starting with ※ or ＊, lines laid out with two spaces in a row, and lines ending in a noun or a continuative form are not counted as sentences, nor are lines ending in a closing bracket, ？ or ！, or a paragraph opened by a colon under a term, the description in a definition list (プレビュー, then :入力した内容をプレビューできます). A document whose paragraphs mostly end without 。 (slides, lists) is not reported.
Turning it off or relaxing it
Technical details
- Layer
- L2
- Status
- stable
- Severity
- info
- Languages
- ja
- Suited to
- business, technical, blog, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech
- Reads from the document
- pos
Levels
Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).
| strict | reported while paragraphs without 。 are at most 34% of the counted paragraphs |
|---|---|
| normal | reported while paragraphs without 。 are at most 25% of the counted paragraphs |
| relaxed | reported while paragraphs without 。 are at most 15% of the counted paragraphs |
By genre
- Runs by default in
- technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper
- Turned off by the genre in
- literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play, speech/address, speech/transcript
Message
This paragraph ends without 。, where the document's paragraphs usually end with it ({count} of {of})
Rewrite depth (chaff fix-plan --depth): light — words and sentences; the structure and the voice stay
Sources
This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/missing-final-period.yaml