From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 12973@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12973: @: overused in manual
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:50:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50AFE19A.7020805@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a9u8t848.fsf@gnu.org>
On 11/23/2012 11:46 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Why do you say it has no effect in this case?
It has no effect in TeX because TeX already does
the right thing with initials. TeX assumes that
"." ends a sentence unless it's preceded by a capital
letter. "Jay K. Adams" has a capital letter before
the period so no @: is needed after the period.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-23 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-23 19:25 bug#12973: @: overused in manual Paul Eggert
2012-11-23 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-23 20:50 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2012-11-23 21:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-23 23:51 ` Stephen Berman
2012-11-23 23:56 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-24 0:11 ` Stephen Berman
2012-11-24 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-24 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2012-11-24 20:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-24 1:43 ` Richard Stallman
2012-11-24 20:31 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-24 2:03 ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-24 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-24 6:45 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-24 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-24 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-24 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-24 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-24 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2012-11-25 0:46 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-25 4:47 ` bug#12973: [TRUNCATED MESSAGE 2692 191817] " Richard Stallman
2012-11-25 19:17 ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-25 19:16 ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-26 1:31 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-05 22:31 ` Paul Eggert
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