From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 12973@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12973: @: overused in manual
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 08:32:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8338zztst1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738zz271y.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box>
> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 12973@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:11:53 +0100
>
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:56:08 -0800 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I hadn't actually looked before, but I just did, and it's quite clear in
> (texinfo)Ending a Sentence.
But if one looks up @:, which is in another section, they will not see
that "X." doesn't need a @:. And that is a problem, because "Not
Ending a Sentence" should have pointed to "Ending a Sentence" or told
explicitly that @: is not required in those cases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-24 6:32 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
2012-11-24 0:11 ` Stephen Berman
2012-11-24 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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