Regex to find long sentences in LaTeX

Regex to find long sentences in LaTeX

[J.Burton]

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.

Or maybe a regex isn't the best thing for this?

Thanks very much,

Jim

Re: Regex to find long sentences in LaTeX

[Joel J. Adamson]

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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Re: Regex to find long sentences in LaTeX

[Andreas Röhler]

Am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2008 schrieb J.Burton@brighton.ac.uk:
> 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.
> 
> Or maybe a regex isn't the best thing for this?

Why not simple do an incremental search for Sentence-end (probably a dot 
followed by one or two spaces)? Than all sentence-ends will be highlighted. 
You may scroll the buffer and watch the distances.

Andreas Roehler
> 
> Thanks very much,
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
>