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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.



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