From 497d2f7dc68bf56a969b57d721b1a49127909ae2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: matze-dd <45763831+matze-dd@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 12:54:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] New option --single-letters for shell.py

---
 README.md | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9afeeb1..4ae5f7b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -683,7 +683,8 @@ They can be suppressed with `python3 shell.py ... 2>/dev/null`.
 python3 shell.py [--html] [--link] [--include] [--extract macros]
                  [--language lang] [--t2t-lang lang] [--encoding ienc]
                  [--replace file] [--define file] [--disable rules]
-                 [--context number] [--skip regex] [--plain] [--server]
+                 [--context number] [--skip regex]
+                 [--single-letters accept] [--plain] [--server]
                  latex_file [latex_file ...] [> text_or_html_file]
 ```
 Option names may be abbreviated.
@@ -715,6 +716,13 @@ Default option values are set at the Python script beginning.
 - option `--context number`:<br>
   number of context lines displayed around each marked text region
   in HTML report; default: 2; negative number: display whole text
+- option `--single-letters accept`:<br>
+  check for single letters, accepting those in the patterns given as list
+  separated by '\|';
+  for instance `--singe-letters 'A|a|I|e.g.|i.e.'` for an English text
+  without equations;
+  all characters except '\|' are taken verbatim, but '~' and '\\,' are
+  interpreted as UTF-8 non-breaking space and narrow non-breaking space
 - option `--plain`:<br>
   assume plain-text input: no evaluation of LaTeX syntax;
   cannot be used together with option --include or --replace