On 11/29/05, Jeffrey Schwab <jeff / schwabcenter.com> wrote:
> 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.

As I noted above, this is an improper convention outside of the
typewriter realm. If you are using anything other than a fixed-pitch
font for display or print, you should *never* use two spaces.

-austin
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