Re: Disappearance of 'a' in compounds

Thanks for the help.  Of course, I knew that "aacariyaantevaasika" was the wrong spelling, but my program doesn't.  It
catches words, and doesn't understand sandhi yet (it is still young :) ).  Once it finds "aacariya", it cuts that part
off and looks for "ntevaasika", which it finds only because I plugged an equation in as "ntevasika" = "antevaasika".
But I'm looking for a general rule to use, so as to include "dosantara", etc. without having to plug in each example I
find.  Is it possible to determine whether the elision occurs always in certain cases (eg "nt...")?

Best wishes,

Yuttadhammo