>i'm wondering if there is a script that i could run my plaintext >files thru that would capitalize thef first letter of each >sentence [[ assuming the character wasn't already a cap!]] > >more and more, in recent years, i have posted questions or >written things that have been sloppily or casually hacked >together in all lower case. this filter would have to determine >what was and was not a sentence. or a sentence fragment. >[ai]spell can catch "i've" and suggest "I've", etc.
You're asking a lot from a simple filter if you want it to discriminate between uses of "." to terminate a sentence, and other uses of "." that do not require the following word to be capitalized, such as the use of "." in abbreviations -- a lot of fairly sophisticated spelling and grammar checkers can fail to do this reliably. But if you want a naive filter you could use textproc/gsed, with the /U GNU extension (our BSD sed(1) doesn't understand it), e.g.: gsed -e 's|\(\.[.[:space:].]\)\([a-z]\)|\1\U\2|g' or you could use BSD sed(1), together with a more cumbersome capitalization script, like the cflword[12345].sed scripts at: http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/scripts/#txfo Or you could use Perl. Or awk(1). Or script a [non-]interactive call to a more sophisticated spelling or grammar checker. Or roll your own. For questions like this, try searching the web first. b. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
