Customization of Segmentation (all tools)

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Customization of Segmentation (all tools)
Poster: Helen_Of_Troy

Hi everyone!
Do you happen to know whether it is possible to make a CAT-tool ignore pilcrows (paragraph marks) and tabs within sentences in Word Documents? I am translating documents containing sentences which span several lines but are interrupted by paragraph marks and tabs. How can I tell a tool to only accept a full stop (= actual end of sentence) as the end of a segment?
There are instances where there is a placeholder within sentences indicated by several full stops (…). How can I add this exception to my segmentation rules, once I have customized the tool? I don’t want the segment to end after this set of full stops either, only after a single full stop.
Is such a customization possible at all and if so, is it possible with every CAT-tool? This question might affect our decision regarding which tool to go for. We need a collaborative tool and will most likely go for a cloud-based one. Do internet-based tools have this feature? How about Memsource?
Thank you a lot in advance!
Helen