From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12973: @: overused in manual Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:56:08 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <50B00D18.6070404@cs.ucla.edu> References: <50AFCDA1.8020500@cs.ucla.edu> <83a9u8t848.fsf@gnu.org> <50AFE19A.7020805@cs.ucla.edu> <87a9u72800.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353715000 23485 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2012 23:56:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:56:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12973@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 24 00:56:51 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc373-00056G-9y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:56:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc36s-0005v8-AY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:56:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc36q-0005ur-8P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:56:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc36n-0004yU-Tj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:56:36 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:53456) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc36n-0004yQ-QK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:56:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc38D-0000Hl-Mh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:58:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:58:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12973 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 12973-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12973.13537150611071 (code B ref 12973); Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:58:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12973) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Nov 2012 23:57:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35474 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc37s-0000HB-DB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:57:40 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:49543) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc37q-0000H4-2t for 12973@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:57:39 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BADCCA60013; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:56:08 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id D5IA1IWddWEs; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:56:08 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-71-189-154-249.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.154.249]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5C561A60008; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:56:08 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: <87a9u72800.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67380 Archived-At: 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.