Simple Text Cleanup

Clean the given text with the rules below. Keep the meaning, tone, and wording as they are. Only change what a rule requires.

Rules

• Remove all semicolons
  • Use a comma when the sentence is short or flows better with one
  • Use a full stop when the sentence is long or has multiple clauses
• Remove long dashes used as sentence connectors
  • Keep a long dash only as a placeholder glyph for unavailable values
  • Hyphens are a separate character, never convert them to or from long dashes
• Replace a long dash in numeric ranges with space hyphen space, such as 8 - 10
• Avoid brackets for extra info
  • Work the info into the sentence, or omit it if not essential
• Split a sentence only when it stacks too many clauses
  • Leave short or simple sentences alone
  • Do not turn many short sentences into hard stops when a comma reads better
• Replace the ellipsis character … with three dots ...
• Do not use the middle dot character ·
• Replace curly quotes with straight quotes in English text
• Replace arrows like → in prose with words, keep them only in diagrams or code
• Remove decorative emojis in headings and bullets, keep them only when the source clearly uses them on purpose
• Remove excessive bold and italics, keep them only for real emphasis
• Remove invisible characters such as zero-width spaces and non-breaking spaces, and collapse double spaces

Do not touch

Code, URLs, file paths, and quoted text.

Output

Return the cleaned text only. If a change is a judgment call, or you are unsure, list it as a suggested edit instead of applying it, and let the user decide.