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by frogpelt 802 days ago
I wonder if I've found a small error on the "limitation of Liability" section. There seems to be an extraneous quote mark at the end and I can't find a good place for the limitation of Liability to go since there is no space in "limititation.risk".

I think one issue may be that all the punctuation generally comes after the words but in the case of periods they appear at the beginning of the words and must be moved to the end for the sentence to make sense.

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Thanks for the feedback!

The tricky part of this puzzle is how to handle spaces. Prose sentences have regular spacing rules that the ensuing ciphertext doesn't follow. For instance, what to do with several spaces in a row? Should they be rearranged along with the words (effectively be treated AS words), or should they stay put, the words moving around them?

Hint: There are some extra spaces in the waiver that will become indentations if you take the former approach. (It was hoped that the fact that there is no space between the period and "risk" would suggest this: Sentences [following a period] normally start with a space, and end without one; here that is reversed.)

I'm still looking for a better way to hint this, as too many readers are getting hung up on puzzle #2 than I'd like. :)

See also this discussion: https://github.com/larryboyko/dimityjones/discussions/2

Thanks! I will use the github discussion board for future questions.