Too many items joined by middle dots

no-nakaguro-parallelon by default (info)Japanese

So many items joined by middle dots (・) in one sentence that groups blur

Example

Flagged

対象は営業・企画・総務・経理・人事・法務の各部と、東京・大阪・名古屋の各拠点です。

What chaff prints

1:1 この文に中黒が 7 個あります（5 個まで）

Fixed

対象は次の部と拠点です。 - 部: 営業、企画、総務、経理、人事、法務 - 拠点: 東京、大阪、名古屋

What chaff prints

no finding

How to fix

Use commas, or turn it into a bullet list.

Why it matters

One run of middle dots reads fine. Several runs in one sentence make it impossible to tell which item belongs to which group. A 「・」 that opens a line is a bullet and is not counted.

What it does not flag

A 「・」 at the start of a line is a bullet and is not counted.

Turning it off or relaxing it

Silence this one spot (in the document)

Relax it for the team (the reason is kept as a comment in chaff.yaml)

npx chaffjs relax no-nakaguro-parallel --why "reason"

Turn it off for the team (chaff.yaml)

rules: no-nakaguro-parallel: off

Technical details

Layer: L3
Status: stable
Severity: info
Languages: ja
Suited to: blog, business, technical, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech

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	up to 3 middle dots in a sentence
normal	up to 5 middle dots in a sentence
relaxed	up to 8 middle dots in a sentence

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, speech/address
Turned off by the genre in: literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play, speech/transcript

Genres

Message

{count} middle dots in this sentence (limit {limit})

This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/no-nakaguro-parallel.yaml