Allowing Alternative Spellings of Proper Nouns when Followed by Numeric Identifiers

[p0fi]

I have a proper noun, such as JavaScript, defined in a vocabulary file. Vale should ensure it's always spelled correctly in regular body text. However, if it's followed by braces containing a number, like javascript(1234), it should also be accepted. What is the best way to achieve this using Vale?

[emteelb]

I won't claim this is the best way, but adding this to an acceptable vocabulary file seems to work for your example:

JavaScript(?!\(\d+\))

$ vale "Javascript is great."

 stdin.txt
 1:1  error  Use 'JavaScript(?!\(\d+\))'     Vale.Terms
             instead of 'Javascript'.

✖ 1 error, 0 warnings and 0 suggestions in stdin.

$ vale "An example function call is javascript(1234)."
✔ 0 errors, 0 warnings and 0 suggestions in stdin.

The suggestion to use JavaScript(?!\(\d+\))' might be confusing to someone unfamiliar with regular expression syntax.

[jdkato]

My suggestion would be to format javascript(1234) as inline code (using whatever markup format you're using). This will exclude it from raising issues related to spelling or capitalization.