Texinfo manual: Sentence spacing

[Vincent Lefevre]

Hi,

In the Texinfo manual, section on @frenchspacing:

  
https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/_0040frenchspacing.html

  "In American typography, it is traditional and correct to put
  extra space at the end of a sentence. This is the default in
  Texinfo (implemented in Info and printed output; for HTML, we
  don’t try to override the browser). In French typography (and
  others), this extra space is wrong; all spaces are uniform."

This is misleading. One has the impression than in American
typography, extra space is preferred. However, this is no longer
the case nowadays:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing

  "From around 1950, single sentence spacing became standard in
  books, magazines and newspapers, and the majority of style guides
  that use a Latin-derived alphabet as a language base now prescribe
  or recommend the use of a single space after the concluding
  punctuation of a sentence."

Indeed, I could check that LaTeX classes provided by various editors
use \frenchspacing.

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