Hi again,

with some tests before...

Actually, you only need to enter your bullet in the before break regex and a fullstop (any character) in the after break regex. I don't know the \p{... symbols well, are you sure you need them?

Both "bullet" and "\u2022" work.

Kind regards

Sébastien

Hi Sébastien, hi Nora

Many thanks for the hints. I got a bit confused with the "Basic View" and "Advanced View" of the segmentation rule.

And to answer Sébastien's question about the \p{... part of the regex: this is automatically added by Studio if one enters the characters in the "Basic View".

I tried your suggestion and Studio now does segment at the bullet, but the bullet shows up as a character at the end of the previous segment, see below:

How can I avoid this?

Walter

Hi Sébastien, hi Nora

Many thanks for the hints. I got a bit confused with the "Basic View" and "Advanced View" of the segmentation rule.

And to answer Sébastien's question about the \p{... part of the regex: this is automatically added by Studio if one enters the characters in the "Basic View".

I tried your suggestion and Studio now does segment at the bullet, but the bullet shows up as a character at the end of the previous segment, see below:

How can I avoid this?

Walter

Hi Sébastien

Thanks for the hint. Adding a seg rule for soft return works. And with a display filter set like this:

I can hide the bullet only segments in the Editor (in case you wonder about the "\*", I extended the bullet rule to include also the asterisk because this this use case also has list items introduced by an asterisk).

So far, this works fine now, not only on my simple Word sample, but also on the Excel document. However, I have another problem with the Excel, which is probably not at all related to the segmentation. When I preview the Excel or save as target, the target only contains text in the first 4 segments the rest of the document is empty. I'll now need to find out what causes this.

Thanks a lot for the help on the segmentation rules.

Walter

Hi Nora

Thanks for the suggestion Nora.

However, when I try this, I get the following:

The bullet is now inside the segment, but at the end of it, which is not really what we want.

Walter

Hi Walter,

How strange, it looks like the rule to segment before a bullet is not being applied. Did you include both rules when processing the sample above? There needs to be one rule to segment before a bullet and another one to segment after a bullet.

This is what I get with a small sample:

This TM contains the rules I used: Bullet segmentation.zip

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Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant with "each bullet in its own segment", I thought you meant that the bullet including the following text would be in a segment (together).

Hi Walter,

First, thanks for reporting back on the "invisible" text, I was meaning to ask if you had found a solution. It always helps to hear about these things in case it happens to us!

Regarding the segmentation: you're right, I was only offering an alternative to what Sébastien suggested, but the result would be the same as what you had already achieved.

By the way, for the benefit of others who may have a similar use case: in order to get the bullet + text on each segment, using either Sébastien's suggestion for the soft return segmentation or a "segment before bullet" segmentation rule would work, you wouldn't need the "segment after bullet" rule. In other words, in order to include the bullet with the text, you would only need this rule:

Have a relaxing weekend!