start and end of text segments

Start and end of text segments

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WordSmith attempts to recognise 4 types of text segment: sentences, paragraphs, headings, sections. Processing is case sensitive. You can use <Enter> and <Tab> as strings representing an end of paragraph or a tab in your texts. For sentence ends, auto is another option.

Sentences

For example, <s> might represent the beginning of a sentence and </s> the end. If you leave the choice as auto, ends of sentences are determined by full stops or question marks or exclamation marks followed by a capital letter.

Paragraphs

For example, <p *> or <p> might represent the beginning of a paragraph and </p> the end.

Headings

For example, <head> might represent the beginning and </head> the end. Note that the British National Corpus marks sentences within headings. Eg.

<head>

<s n="2"><w NN1>Introduction

</head>

in text HXL. It seems odd for the one word Introduction to count as a sentence, so WordSmith does not use sentence-tags within headings.

Sections

For example, <section *> might represent the beginning and </section> the end.

Each of these is counted preferably when its closing tag such as </s>, </p> etc. is encountered. If there are no closing </p> tags in the entire text then paragraphs will be counted each time the opening paragraph tag is found.