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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: 12973@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12973: @: overused in manual
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:56:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B00D18.6070404@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9u72800.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box>

On 11/23/2012 03:51 PM, Stephen Berman wrote:
> What does TeX do with sentences like these:
> 
> "Mary would never do that, nor would I.  Would you?"
> "We met the mysterious Madame X.  She's younger than I thought."
> "Walk ten paces to point A.  Turn left, then walk 7 paces to point B."

It assumes that "I.", "X.", "A.", and "B." do not end sentences.
To fix this in Texinfo, use "I@." instead of "I.", and similarly
for the others.

This is documented in the Texinfo manual, though apparently the
documentation isn't clear enough.





  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-23 23:56 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
2012-11-23 21:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-23 23:51     ` Stephen Berman
2012-11-23 23:56       ` Paul Eggert [this message]
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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