meter.grm: compound words about latin_scansion

[kylebgorman]

I remember reading this somewhere---is this mentioned in Allen?

Why do you say it's [ab.est] here? I just scanned it and came to the opposite conclusion: first foot is a dactyl.

Knowing where a preposition like this is difficult without adding a full-blown morphological analyzer to the system since there are going to be so many false positives (like subit).

[jillianchang]

Sorry, you are right about [a.best].

I didn't get it from Allen, actually. I saw a picture of "The Beginners Latin Boo" by William C. Collar posted online that takes about it.

You are probably correct that the prefixes are split, I guess we can come back to it if we find otherwise?

[kylebgorman]

I wonder if this is a case where it's varaible and we can treat it in optional.grm down the line.

[kylebgorman]

This relates to our discussion elsewhere of intervocalic i that fails to geminate in compounds like biiugo and vowel-initial words prefixed with prae-.