Re: Newlines in @w and sentence ends

[Gavin Smith]

On 28 June 2015 at 19:09, Patrice Dumas <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I think that a single space character could well appear after the "c."
>> or "C." in both cases.
>
> Unless I am missing something the fact that C. doesn't lead to an end of
> sentence is unrelated to whether it is in @w or not.  An upper case
> letter before a . never ends a sentence, as is in TeX.

That wasn't what I didn't know. The point is that the distinction
between an upper-case letter before a . and a character that is not an
upper-case letter before ., in a @w, is only heeded at the an end of a
line.

> End of sentence, and thus doubling of space in @w is indeed recognized
> in @w.  I didn't find it in archive, but I recall discussing that with
> Karl.  My very vague recalling is that it was to be consistent with TeX.

In TeX I believe it's treated the same as if a single space appeared
instead of the newline. When I tried it in TeX all the spaces in the
output looked the same width.

Thanks,
Gavin