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ftrain / savepublishing

CoffeeScript code to quickly extract and display all the tweetable statements from a live web page.
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Sentence truncation #11

Open ftrain opened 11 years ago

ftrain commented 11 years ago

Sentences are truncating here:

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2012-09/20/john-jeremiah-sullivan-pulphead-interview

What was:

Do you ever feel privileged to have that creative freedom? I am grateful for it. I know that I'm able to get people who don't want to give away any of their time to give me time now. That's not to do with my ability as a writer, but more the institutional backing I have - that editors are willing to trust me. But I also think it's a trap that it's essential I be wary of. In a way, I dread knowing how to "do a profile". If the pieces in Pulphead have any interest, it's in that the person writing them didn't really know what he was doing but had something he wanted to say and so was going to concoct the means to say it. I want to go on doing that.

Becomes:

Do you ever feel privileged to have that creative freedom? \ I am grateful for it. I know that I'm able to get people That's not to do with my ability as a writer, but more the But I also think it's a trap that it's essential I be wary of. In a way, I dread knowing how to "do a profile". If the pieces in I

Oddly it's cutting every other line in the HTML source. This is surprising because the script operates on the parsed DOM. I imagine it has something to do with a regular expression matching against a newline.

ftrain commented 11 years ago

This also appears on http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/12/29/sql-is-agile/