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From: Marco Patzer <homerow@lavabit.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Find too long sentences
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:52:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130215125228.GG3733@homerow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <511E2C53.6030309@mmnetz.de>


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On 2013–02–15 "H. Özoguz" wrote:

> working on a book with many too long sentences, I got the following
> idea/question:
> Is it possible to recognize the length of a sentence, and to let
> context show in the pdf, if there is a too long sentence.

This sounds more like a job for the text editor. Many text editors
already know what a sentence is. That means it's as easy as looping
over all sentences and counting the characters/bytes and performing
some action (e.g. placing the cursor or injecting a ConTeXt macro).

Marco

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-15 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-15 12:38 "H. Özoguz"
2013-02-15 12:52 ` Marco Patzer [this message]
2013-02-15 12:54 ` Philipp Gesang
     [not found] <mailman.815.1360932936.2489.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2013-02-15 14:11 ` "H. Özoguz"
2013-02-15 14:52   ` Marco Patzer
2013-02-15 16:16     ` Marco Patzer

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