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: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 12:31:11 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <50B12E8F.6020801@cs.ucla.edu> References: <50AFCDA1.8020500@cs.ucla.edu> <83a9u8t848.fsf@gnu.org> <50AFE19A.7020805@cs.ucla.edu> 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 1353789097 21718 80.91.229.3 (24 Nov 2012 20:31:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:31:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12973@debbugs.gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 24 21:31:48 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 1TcMO7-00015D-NX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:31:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48052 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcMNx-00084G-0J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:31:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56989) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcMNu-00084B-CB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:31:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcMNt-0000hS-DX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:31:30 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:54983) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcMNt-0000hN-9o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:31:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TcMPO-0005ne-3y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:33:02 -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: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:33:02 +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=B12973.135378916722274 (code B ref 12973); Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:33:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12973) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Nov 2012 20:32:47 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37001 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TcMP9-0005nD-Gt for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:32:47 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:52779) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TcMP7-0005n5-0G for 12973@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C266DA60006; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 12:31:10 -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 ZKh8ZS-tUQGl; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 12:31:10 -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 722E6A60002; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 12:31:10 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: 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:67411 Archived-At: On 11/23/2012 05:43 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > Maybe other Texinfo formatters do not treat the capital letter as > special. As far as I know, they're all consistent in this matter, i.e., all formatters treat the "Q." in "John Q. Smith" as not ending a sentence, and none of them insert extra space after the "Q.". In hindsight, perhaps Texinfo should also have been consistent about the way that it formats "Write it in C. The compile it." That is, perhaps it should have formatted that "C." as end of sentence, regardless of what TeX would do with the same input. But I suppose it's too late to change that now.