From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolai Weibull Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:32:58 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20151212115202.16784.72345@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83poy82xe0.fsf@gnu.org> <834mfj36ij.fsf@gnu.org> <83vb7y1yqg.fsf@gnu.org> <83oadq1wdq.fsf@gnu.org> <8360zrsoct.fsf@gnu.org> <83poxuli6m.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9j1dwcu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451410405 17635 80.91.229.3 (29 Dec 2015 17:33:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:33:25 +0000 (UTC) To: Eli Zaretskii , Shakthi Kannan , Emacs Developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 29 18:33:14 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1aDy92-0000Bw-5R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:33:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49505 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDy91-0001hn-JL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:33:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDy8w-0001eA-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:33:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDy8v-0002N3-LG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:33:06 -0500 Original-Received: from disu.se ([71.19.156.204]:47036) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDy8r-0002KH-PV; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:33:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-lf0-f50.google.com (mail-lf0-f50.google.com [209.85.215.50]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by disu.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0EB2BBFB8; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:33:00 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=disu.se; s=mail; t=1451410380; bh=LN3T6yoYeuiDiEWloF6H3veqmGzAfzqofigh0SomC8Y=; h=In-Reply-To:References:Date:Subject:From:To:From; b=AziIgrIKjWDJpHUIybLjMAhyCkudbDmfla7p4OO0HZMF/saWenT2iGRjKjbJtKWEY VZuDnmNO+takbAULNWNt+P2ApbPwWkwUSsjspECcDWpsdxizzc3+A6UIxLvDJqpusV b5HdQFSIjTogXCKNTX1G8cMN7skoEdQeck2KOKEE= Original-Received: by mail-lf0-f50.google.com with SMTP id y184so215240333lfc.1; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:32:59 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.25.136.193 with SMTP id k184mr21865401lfd.88.1451410378419; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:32:58 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.25.64.7 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:32:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.19.156.204 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:197111 Archived-At: On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 6:05 PM, John Wiegley wrote: >>>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes: > >>> +with the Greek lambda character @samp{=CE=BB}. In a TeX buffer, it wil= l >> ^^ ^^^ >> Two spaces between sentences, please (we use the US English >> conventions). > > I almost hate to say this, but I'm not sure this is the English conventio= n > anymore. A quick Google shows many, many sites that indicate that the mod= ern > convention is now one space, and none that recommend two spaces. I've eve= n > changed to one space in my e-mails, even, after being a long holdout for = the > two space rule. I haven=E2=80=99t seen a style guide that says anything other than that one space is preferred. However, I thought the general rule was to use two spaces to make it easy for software (oh, the continued irony of it all) to distinguish sentence-ending periods from other periods. Also, any typesetting software that doesn=E2=80=99t fold multiple spaces in= to one isn=E2=80=99t a typesetting software. Microsoft Word isn=E2=80=99t a t= ypesetting software. TeX is a typesetting software, so using multiple spaces shouldn=E2=80=99t affect the output at all. (Perhaps Texinfo is different?= ) Though, TeX, as far as I recall, favors adding space after a period when justifying a paragraph.