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Re: Regex to find long sentences in LaTeX
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Joel J. Adamson |
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Re: Regex to find long sentences in LaTeX |
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Thu, 22 May 2008 22:42:10 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
J.Burton@brighton.ac.uk writes:
> Hi, can someone show me a regex to find sentences in LaTeX docs with more
> than a
> certain number of words? I want to find all sentences with > 30
> words (I have a weakness for writing waffling sentences :-))
> I started to get something going in re-builder but it needs to allow
> LaTeX escape chars \{}[] (are there more?) within sentences as well as
> normal punctuation.
Emacs has some standard regular expressions for sentences and
paragraphs. Check out the Elisp manual (info "(elisp) Standard
Regexps")
Joel
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