On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:58:47PM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote:
> avraham wrote:
>
> >You are really fast with your reactions and with your fingers.
> >Re your question: Can you give me a reliable criterium to recognize
> >automatically the "paragraph structure of the initial document" ?
> >
> >
> That really depends on the style of the text.
> Many times if you look for lines having fullstop ('.') as their last
> non-whitespace, you'll get a good enough approximation for where to
> insert the "end of paragraph"s.
> In other texts you can be a bit more restrictive, e.g. demand that the
> following line is empty, or starts with whitespace.
>
> Another note: if your'e preserving line structure, normally you'd also
> want to preserve spaces and maybe even make it fixed font (because
> sometimes plaintext files contain tables, ascii graphics and other stuff
> which depends on char positions) in these cases you normally just
> enclose the whole text with \begin{verbatim} .... \end{verbatim}
>
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Hi Amit,
I agree fully with your first remark. I would add to that
there is no universal best way to present a text. That depends on
half a milion circumstances of various kinds.
I do not try "to conserve line structure", or any other kind of
structure. I am merely after an easy and "cheap" way to obtain
immediately a dvi file that would allow me to judge what is to do
(interactively) to obtain a text well formated for the specific
task, in a second step.
Of course, if you have a 500 pages draft, you will try to automate
as much of this step as possible. But then, you have a specific
case with specific sonstraints and characteristics. I fail to see
how to devise an universally applicable for this second step.
And for a short draft, it is not worthwhile to bother.
Bye, Avraham
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