Feature request

[Warwick Lloyd]

I’m a long time TextSoap user. I produce transcripts which are collections of sentences. I want to break lines at the end of each sentence to improve readability. I can do this manually or use <br> but I want to automate this process. There is another app that does it but its output is unusable.

Warwick

[Mark Munz]

Matching sentences can be tricky. There are a lot of rules and edge cases, so you may need to make additional adjustments.

If your sentences are well-formed, ending in a period, question, exclamation, and the start of the next sentence is capitalized, you can do something like this:

The first part (?<! .. ) is a negative look-behind. This helps prevent the period in an abbreviation from adding a return.

([.?!]\s) this second part (capture $1) looks for an end punctuation and whitespace, capturing it.

Finally ([:uppercase:]) looks for and captures the first capitalized character (which should be the start of the next sentence).

The replacement then puts a return between the end of the sentence and the starting character, including the captured strings so no text is lost.

The second match looks for a sentence ending within a quotation. Something like, "Is this the right answer?" 

This is meant as a starting point. There may be additional edge cases, depending on the text you are working with.

On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 6:57 AM 'Warwick Lloyd' via TextSoap <text...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I’m a long time TextSoap user. I produce transcripts which are collections of sentences. I want to break lines at the end of each sentence to improve readability. I can do this manually or use <br> but I want to automate this process. There is another app that does it but its output is unusable.

Warwick

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