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Old 06-03-2009, 12:27 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by ahi View Post
... how does Gideon know where the paragraph breaks are?

If he knows where they are, the same way he can ascertain it, so ought a computer program be able to... I think?

- Ahi
Because people can easily do "pattern recognition" tasks which are extremely difficult for a computer.

You could say "If a line starts in a capital letter then it's probably a new paragraph", I suppose. It wouldn't be 100% reliable, but it would be a good start.
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