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Originally Posted by cybmole
I mentioned quote ( mark)
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True, I missed it, sorry.
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when I was taught English grammar at school, then colon and dash were not valid sentence endings
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Yet you'll find them in many books, often to introduce a character's speech or some song or poetry.
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I would not necessarily expect a line feed to follow either of those - the 3 dot ellipses will be caught by the test for a single full stop
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I don't say that a line feed must follow them, but that it may, without being incorrect. And with ellipsis I mean the single character for the three dots, not the three dots as three characters, this is not found with the full stop.
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I guess there will never be "one regex to rule them all" but I am happy if I can automate 99% of repairs
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I agree. My point is that it's always good to check each occurrence, and not trust automatic search and replace.
I'd say that is overly simplistic in the context of a full book, at least for considering where a "paragraph break" can occur.