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Re: Spaces after periods
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Spaces after periods |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:30:33 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> +with the Greek lambda character @samp{λ}. In a TeX buffer, it will
>> ^^ ^^^
>> Two spaces between sentences, please (we use the US English
>> conventions).
>
> I almost hate to say this, but I'm not sure this is the English
> convention anymore.
It is the Emacs convention, however, making it possible for Emacs to
distinguish abbreviations from sentence ends when wrapping lines. It is
modelled after the conventions for _typewriters_. Typewriting fonts are
monospace, and as a text editor rather than a word processor, typical
Emacs usage involves quite a bit of monospace fonts.
> A quick Google shows many, many sites that indicate that the modern
> convention is now one space, and none that recommend two spaces.
I suspect that it's more of a "trust your word processor to figure out
the proper spacing" thing.
> I've even changed to one space in my e-mails, even, after being a long
> holdout for the two space rule.
Well, Emacs does not wrap lines nicely with single spaces. You can, of
course, customize sentence-end-double-space. But then Emacs can no
longer distinguish sentence ends from abbreviations reliably.
--
David Kastrup
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- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, Shakthi Kannan, 2015/12/16
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- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/29
- Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1), John Wiegley, 2015/12/29
- Re: Spaces after periods,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1), Nikolai Weibull, 2015/12/29
- Re: Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1), Ingo Lohmar, 2015/12/29
- Re: Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1), Marcin Borkowski, 2015/12/29
- Re: Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1), Nikolai Weibull, 2015/12/29
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- Re: Spaces after periods, Nikolai Weibull, 2015/12/30
- Re: Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1), Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/29
- Re: Spaces after periods, John Wiegley, 2015/12/29
- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, Shakthi Kannan, 2015/12/30
- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/30