[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Interaction between closing bracket, capital letter and full stop at end
From: |
Gavin Smith |
Subject: |
Interaction between closing bracket, capital letter and full stop at end of sentence |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Jan 2015 12:43:41 +0000 |
I noticed that in some cases in the Info makeinfo output a single
space would be output at the end of a sentence. For example, after
"HTML)." or "HTML.)". I'm sure that it an end of sentence shouldn't be
recognized after "HTML." because you need "address@hidden" for that, but I'm
not sure if the cases with closing brackets are correct.
The Texinfo manual on this behaviour:
"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."
(This doesn't seem to be the whole story because it doesn't cover the
case of "closing punctuation" BEFORE the full stop.)
We should probably follow what TeX does in such circumstances. Does anyone know?
- Interaction between closing bracket, capital letter and full stop at end of sentence,
Gavin Smith <=