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Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Aug 2015 15:40:27 +0300 |
> From: Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, Texinfo <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 11:39:17 +0200
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015, at 11:26, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I find this:
> >
> > @item -Q "@var{characters}"
> > @itemx --quotestr="@var{characters}"
> > Set the quoting string for justifying. The default value is
> > @t{"^([ \t]*[|>:@}#])+"} if extended regular expression support
> > is available, and @t{"> "} otherwise.
> >
> > Here the quotes inside @t seem redundant, as the whole @var is already
> > quoted.
>
> Yes, strictly speaking the double quotes are redundant. But I
> still want them; it's clearer with them included.
"Clearer" is in the eyes of the beholder, I guess, because when I read
that part of the manual, I get confused about how many pairs of quotes
I need to type there.
> But what I most certainly do *not* want is *other* quotes to be
> shown.
Use Gavin's suggestion, and you will have only one pair of quotes, as
is widely accepted in GNU documentation.
- Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space, (continued)
- Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space, Benno Schulenberg, 2015/08/06
- Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space, Gavin Smith, 2015/08/06
- Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/06
- Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space, Benno Schulenberg, 2015/08/06
- Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/06
- Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space, Benno Schulenberg, 2015/08/07
- Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/07
- Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space, Benno Schulenberg, 2015/08/07
- Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/07
- Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space, Benno Schulenberg, 2015/08/07
- Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space, Gavin Smith, 2015/08/07
- Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space, Benno Schulenberg, 2015/08/06