rule for period and sentence ending

[Vincent Lefevre]

Hi,

The current rule for sentence ending is:

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14.3.3 Ending a Sentence
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As mentioned above, Texinfo normally inserts additional space after the
end of a sentence.  It uses a simple heuristic for this: a sentence ends
with a period, exclamation point, or question mark followed by optional
closing punctuation and then whitespace, and _not_ preceded by a capital
letter.
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I wonder why such an exception "_not_ preceded by a capital letter".
It seems a bad choice. Some acronyms end with a capital letter, and
such acronyms are usually written without periods, so that most often
Texinfo will do a wrong guess. See the acronyms on

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

for instance. An acronym can also mix cases and end with a capital
letter, e.g. "NaN" (for Not-a-Number).

IMHO, the exception should be removed, or changed to: except in the
case of a period preceded by a sequence of letters consisting of only
one capital letter.

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