Ignoring Symbols Like (. or `. or \.

[noctuid]

I tried adding '(' to the abbreviations, but it does not work. Backtick/Grave does not work either. For example, I'd like things like (.) or . or an escaped period to be ignored. I can't think of any situation in which a sentence would end with these characters except for possibly backtick, so it might be nice to have ( and \ ignored by default.

[reedes]

As you found, the abbreviations are regex-based, though currently focused on alphanum chars.

Offhand, I'm not sure whether or not that could be expanded to include non-alphanum chars. If there's any barrier, it'd be interference with the other regexes matching those punctuation chars.

I'm open to this change, but don't have the time to do it myself.