nlcst-affix-emoticon-modifier

nlcst-affix-emoticon-modifier

Move initial emoticons into the previous sentence. Useful because many people place an emoticon, representing emotion related to the previous sentence, after a terminal marker. :unamused:

Implemented by retext-emoji, but separated for use by standalone (non-retext) processing.

Installation

npm:

npm install nlcst-affix-emoticon-modifier

Usage

var affixEmoticon = require('nlcst-affix-emoticon-modifier');
var emoticon = require('nlcst-emoticon-modifier');
var inspect = require('unist-util-inspect');
var english = require('parse-english')();

english.useFirst('tokenizeSentence', emoticon);
english.useFirst('tokenizeParagraph', affixEmoticon);

console.log(inspect(english.parse('Hey. :) How is it going?')));

Yields:

RootNode[1]
└─ ParagraphNode[3]
   ├─ SentenceNode[4]
   │  ├─ WordNode[1]
   │  │  └─ TextNode: 'Hey'
   │  ├─ PunctuationNode: '.'
   │  ├─ WhiteSpaceNode: ' '
   │  └─ EmoticonNode: ':)'
   ├─ WhiteSpaceNode: ' '
   └─ SentenceNode[8]
      ├─ WordNode[1]
      │  └─ TextNode: 'How'
      ├─ WhiteSpaceNode: ' '
      ├─ WordNode[1]
      │  └─ TextNode: 'is'
      ├─ WhiteSpaceNode: ' '
      ├─ WordNode[1]
      │  └─ TextNode: 'it'
      ├─ WhiteSpaceNode: ' '
      ├─ WordNode[1]
      │  └─ TextNode: 'going'
      └─ PunctuationNode: '?'

API

affixEmoticon(paragraph)

Merge affix emoticons into the previous sentence.

Parameters

• paragraph (NLCSTParagraphNode).

License

MIT © Titus Wormer