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remltr · 06-22-2011, 10:35 PM

I have been converting a pdf book series and the only thing left to do to clean it up properly, without using Sigil line by line, would be an expression that would find the line endings that are in the middle of a sentence, thus not having punctuation, except for hyphens, usually caused by a page break in the pdf.

An example of this would be:

The line ends here

but there was a page break or something else that caused the sentence to be split.

Having an expression that would ignore punctuation that would either be a natural line ending or at least be natural looking (excepting hyphens of course) and then a replacement with a word space that closes the line up.

Any ideas?

06-22-2011, 10:35 PM	#1
remltr Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Kindle	Closing up line endings that occur in the middle of a sentence I have been converting a pdf book series and the only thing left to do to clean it up properly, without using Sigil line by line, would be an expression that would find the line endings that are in the middle of a sentence, thus not having punctuation, except for hyphens, usually caused by a page break in the pdf. An example of this would be: The line ends here but there was a page break or something else that caused the sentence to be split. Having an expression that would ignore punctuation that would either be a natural line ending or at least be natural looking (excepting hyphens of course) and then a replacement with a word space that closes the line up. Any ideas? Last edited by remltr; 06-22-2011 at 10:42 PM.