········· > Good Friday there, > > 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. Places to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_breaking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing#Major_tasks_in_NLP Good luck :P Philipp > > For example I am thinking of an command like > \version[longsentence,15] > > which sets an symbol like "*" in the margin, if a sentence has more > than 15 words. > > First, correct sentence-regonition could be a task: It is not enough > to count the words between two dots, because of abbreviations. But > there is probably a known algorithm for handling those problems. I > think a feature like this could be interesting for context (and for > my work :D) > > Thanks for you comments > Huseyin > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments