basi wrote: > Looking for ideas on how to split a text file into sentences. I see the > problem of basing the split on [.!?] -- they're also used in ways other > than to end a sentence. If I have to do manual pre-processing of the > text file, what editing might I do? Has anyone had to deal with this > problem and how did you make life easier for you? It's a common convention to separate sentences by double spaces. I started following this convention because Emacs expected it, and now I use it always.