[bug #20444] inconsistent number of spaces after a period

[Karl Berry]

Update of bug #20444 (project texinfo):

             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 
             Assigned to:                    None => pertusus               

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Follow-up Comment #2:

According to recent discussions with Patrice, the reimplementation of makeinfo
will support inserting end-of-sentence spaces everywhere, not just at the end
of the lines.  So closing this.

Here are some notes from Patrice about it, for posterity:

[The implementation] is in Texinfo/Convert/Paragraph.pm.  It is basically an
object that
is fed with text and returns it split as should be, keeping an internal
state to know what should be done next.  And there are callbacks
to be able to give all the information needed (like 'following is not
an end of sentence' or following is an end of sentence' or 'now we are
in something that keeps spaces and ignores end of lines' as is for @w...),
to cover @: @ @. @* @w and so on.  Also indentation is handled in that
class.

The API is also implemented in Texinfo/Convert/Line.pm for the
formatting of lines, and Texinfo/Convert/UnFilled.pm for text in
preformatted environments.

Those classes, in fact, have nothing Texinfo specific, although their API
was of course done in order to be able to process Texinfo...

If you want to see the association of @-commands with those callbacks
you'll have to have a look at Texinfo/Convert/Plaintext.pm.


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