Can you break a page summary by sentences not paragraphs from v0.134?

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Related to summaryLength applies differently since 0.134.0 · Issue #12837, I want to have summaries of my pages which are whole sentences but not necessarily whole paragraphs. Previously I had set summaryLength = 10 in my config and used the auto summary to get back a summary which was suitably short. This doesn’t work anymore, because the new summary code returns at least one whole paragraph.

Using the strings.Truncate function doesn’t work for me out-of-the-box because there’s no way to ensure that the summary returned will be a whole sentence.

For example, if the post starts off as:
“”"
The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory. There was nothing notable in the event which thus set the bells and the bourgeois of Paris in a ferment from early morning.

It was neither an assault by the Picards nor the Burgundians, nor a hunt led along in procession, nor a revolt of scholars in the town of Laas, nor an entry of “our much dread lord, monsieur the king,” nor even a pretty hanging of male and female thieves by the courts of Paris.
“”"
then I would want the summary to be “The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory”, since that is the integer-sentence-length summary closest to 10 words.

Is there some way to achieve this, or to restore this to the summary functions?

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No.

You could use manual summaries.

shortening the automatic Summary to a sentence breakpoint within the paragraph will be a little complex, as this may also contain html tags. And Identifying the ‘dot’ as sentence end dot might be a problem, too.

a simple brute force, if the content does not contain html tags but plain text could be something like that to manually calculate.

lacks lot of checks like

  • are there 10 words
  • handling multiple paragraphs in the first 10 words
  • …
      {{ $text := .PlainWords }}
      {{ $i := 10 }}
      {{ range after 10 $text }}
         {{ $i = add $i 1 }}
         {{ if findRE `\.$` . }}{{ break }}{{ end }}
      {{ end }}
      <p>{{ delimit (first $i $text) " " }}</p>
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Dot followed by a space and an uppercase letter (will miss sentences starting with a digit, though). Works only for certain languages, though.

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