nlcst utility to move initial emoticons into the previous sentence.

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This utility searches emoticon nodes (from nlcst-emoticon-modifier and nlcst-emoji-modifier) that start a sentence and then moves them into the previous sentence.

This package is a tiny utility that helps when dealing with emoticons in natural language. It’s useful because many people place an emoticon or emoji, representing emotion related to the previous sentence, after a terminal marker. 😒

The plugin retext-emoji wraps this utility and others at a higher-level (easier) abstraction.

This package is ESM only. In Node.js (version 16+), install with npm:

npm install nlcst-affix-emoticon-modifier

In Deno with esm.sh:

import {affixEmoticonModifier} from 'https://esm.sh/nlcst-affix-emoticon-modifier@3'

In browsers with esm.sh:

<script type="module">
  import {affixEmoticonModifier} from 'https://esm.sh/nlcst-affix-emoticon-modifier@3?bundle'
</script>

import {affixEmoticonModifier} from 'nlcst-affix-emoticon-modifier'
import {emoticonModifier} from 'nlcst-emoticon-modifier'
import {ParseEnglish} from 'parse-english'
import {inspect} from 'unist-util-inspect'

const parser = new ParseEnglish()
parser.tokenizeSentencePlugins.unshift(emoticonModifier)
parser.tokenizeParagraphPlugins.unshift(affixEmoticonModifier)

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

Yields:

RootNode[1] (1:1-1:25, 0-24)
└─0 ParagraphNode[3] (1:1-1:25, 0-24)
    ├─0 SentenceNode[4] (1:1-1:8, 0-7)
    │   ├─0 WordNode[1] (1:1-1:4, 0-3)
    │   │   └─0 TextNode "Hey" (1:1-1:4, 0-3)
    │   ├─1 PunctuationNode "." (1:4-1:5, 3-4)
    │   ├─2 WhiteSpaceNode " " (1:5-1:6, 4-5)
    │   └─3 EmoticonNode ":)" (1:6-1:8, 5-7)
    ├─1 WhiteSpaceNode " " (1:8-1:9, 7-8)
    └─2 SentenceNode[8] (1:9-1:25, 8-24)
        ├─0 WordNode[1] (1:9-1:12, 8-11)
        │   └─0 TextNode "How" (1:9-1:12, 8-11)
        ├─1 WhiteSpaceNode " " (1:12-1:13, 11-12)
        ├─2 WordNode[1] (1:13-1:15, 12-14)
        │   └─0 TextNode "is" (1:13-1:15, 12-14)
        ├─3 WhiteSpaceNode " " (1:15-1:16, 14-15)
        ├─4 WordNode[1] (1:16-1:18, 15-17)
        │   └─0 TextNode "it" (1:16-1:18, 15-17)
        ├─5 WhiteSpaceNode " " (1:18-1:19, 17-18)
        ├─6 WordNode[1] (1:19-1:24, 18-23)
        │   └─0 TextNode "going" (1:19-1:24, 18-23)
        └─7 PunctuationNode "?" (1:24-1:25, 23-24)

This package exports the identifier affixEmoticonModifier. There is no default export.

Merge emoticons in node into EmoticonNodes.

See Emoticon in nlcst-emoticon-modifier for that type.

• node (Paragraph) — nlcst paragraph to transform

Nothing (undefined).

This package is fully typed with TypeScript. It exports no additional types.

See Emoticon in nlcst-emoticon-modifier for how to register that type.

Projects maintained by the unified collective are compatible with maintained versions of Node.js.

When we cut a new major release, we drop support for unmaintained versions of Node. This means we try to keep the current release line, nlcst-affix-emoticon-modifier@^3, compatible with Node.js 16.

• nlcst-emoticon-modifier — support emoticons
• nlcst-emoji-modifier — support emoji and gemoji

See contributing.md in syntax-tree/.github for ways to get started. See support.md for ways to get help.

This project has a Code of Conduct. By interacting with this repository, organisation, or community you agree to abide by its terms.

MIT © Titus Wormer