Here is how I do it, in PHP:
$text =
preg_replace("/([.!?]|…)(”|’|\x22|\x27|\))?\s+([A-Z])/
", "\\1\\2 \\3", $text);
$text = preg_replace("/(Mr.|Mrs.|Ms.|Dr.|Drs.) /", "\\1 ", $text);
(Of course this got all hammered by line-wrap in this email, but you get
the idea.) First one looks for cases that need an extra space and puts
in " ". Second one fixes the overzealous Mr., Mrs., etc cases.
This works, handles the whole "inside quotes, parens, etc." problem,
even catches all the funky "smart quotes", and ellipses. The " "
makes line wrap still work.
Don't know why everyone seems to think this is so complicated. Regular
expressions are your friend...
-----Original Message-----
From: Designer
Subject: Re: [WSG] Additional space between sentences ?
But can you point to an actual example of how to do
this? Apart from the (complex) problems of avoiding Mr. Mrs. etc, I
often use PHP and this is riddled with 'periods' where I don't want
spaces. It seems to me to be a complex issue to select only ". " and
replace with ". " ? But then, you probably know something I don't!
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