Re: Preparation for use of XS paragraph formatting module

[Gavin Smith]

On 30 June 2015 at 18:33, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Beyond that, I wonder if it's desirable to have sentence spacing in
> @sc{a. b} in the first place.  Text set in small caps is going to be
> titles or something else special where anything but frenchspacing is
> going to look weird.  It seems that texinfo.tex does insert sentence
> spacing inside @sc, but I think that is the result of not thinking about
> it rather than an explicit decision.

Titles consisting of more than one sentence, or Latin quotations. I
struggle to come up with use cases for @sc itself, but I don't see why
it couldn't be used for multiple sentences.

> Or are there other cases to be handled anyway?

There are several other cases to consider. There are commands that if
followed by end-sentence punctuation, followed by whitespace, will
always be processed as if it is an end of sentence. For example,
"@acronym{ICUP}. more here." From what I understand the same's done
following @var and @code. Also accent commands have to be handled
properly, e.g. the difference between "@'{e}. " and "@'{E}. "