At 15:09 06/08/2008 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Is there a way to highlight sentences longer than N words, N
characters, contain more than N commas, or that span more than N
lines? I am proofreading a document where the distinction between
paragraph and sentence is blurry at best (to put it mildly).
You may be able to do some of these things using regular expressions
and the same Search, Find All, Highlight sequence as for your double spaces.
For example, to find sentences with at least 100 characters, tick on
"Regular expressions" and search for
[A-Z][^.]{99,}\.
That's [A-Z] to match any capital letter, [^.] to match any character
except full stop, {99,} to require the previous element to occur at
least 99 times, and \. to match the terminating full stop. You'll
have to enhance this expression if you want to cope with sentences
that have internal full stops - perhaps in abbreviations - and those
that end with some other punctuation, such as question marks or
exclamation marks. Or you could simply use separate searches
sequentially, of course.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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