How do I get Emacs to fill sentences, but not paragraphs?

Question

I\'ve seen at least two recommendations on StackOverflow to insert newlines between sentences when editing LaTeX documents. The reason being that the practice facilitates so

Answer 1

May not work in all circumstances, but:

(defun my-fill-sentence ()
  "Fill sentence separated by punctuation or blank lines."
  (interactive)
  (let (start end)
    (save-excursion
      (re-search-backward "\\(^\\s-*$\\|[.?!]\\)" nil t)
      (skip-syntax-forward "^w")
      (setq start (point-at-bol)))
    (save-excursion
      (re-search-forward "\\(^\\s-*$\\|[.?!]\\)" nil t)
      (setq end (point-at-eol)))
    (save-restriction
      (narrow-to-region start end)
      (fill-paragraph nil))))

To make it work with auto-fill-mode, add (setq normal-auto-fill-function 'my-fill-sentence) to your LaTeX mode hook (I think).