Paragraph Plain Text format
Paragraph plain text treats a .txt document as a sequence of
paragraphs separated by blank lines (a double newline). Each
paragraph becomes one translatable block; the blank-line separators
between paragraphs are preserved as non-translatable structure.
This is the right reader when the natural translation unit is a whole paragraph rather than a single line — prose, descriptions, or release notes where a sentence may wrap across several physical lines. Line breaks inside a paragraph are kept in the block text, so internal wrapping survives the round-trip.
This format has no configurable parameters.
Examples
Translate prose paragraphs
No configuration is required. Declare the format to extract each blank-line-separated paragraph as one block.
format: name: paraplaintext
Processing notes
Paragraphs are split on a blank line (double newline); CRLF and LF endings are both recognised.
With a skeleton store active, original line endings and blank-line separators are preserved for byte-exact round-trips; leading and trailing blank lines round-trip as skeleton.
Limitations
No sub-paragraph segmentation; the entire paragraph is a single block. Apply a segmentation tool downstream if sentence-level units are needed.
There are no configurable parameters; the paragraph boundary is always the blank line.
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