some "brute force" strategies to help someone change BEFORE into AFTER, while minimizing the amount of 'hand editing' necessary.
Oh, you only want to minimize the
hand-editing necessary, not eliminate it.
Yes, that's a much easier
problem. Copy and paste will help for starters.
It's also pretty easy to write tools that will do things
like capitalize the first letter of every sentence,
so that you don't have to fuss with that when you
rearrange sentence parts so that the first letter is
not the first letter anymore. Using a full-featured
text editor (e.g., Emacs) will help considerably
too, since you can do things like bind a keystroke to
highlight forward to the next punctuation mark and
cut or copy the result to the clipboard. (Then all
you have to do is go paste it...)
It's actually pretty easy to get the computer to do
a lot of your editing work for you -- as long as it
doesn't have to decide what editing to do.
;$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$;[-1]->();print
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