Re: hanging punctuation

["Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>]

> > > Set the right margin to 72 characters and do C-u M-q:
> > > 
> > >   The file found in "include/freetype/config/ftoption.h" contains a list
> > >   of commented configuration macros that can be toggled by developers to
> > >   indicate which features should be active in their build of the library.
> > > 
> > > Note the hanging final full stop.  Basically, this is very nice
> > > from a typographical point of view, nevertheless, it is a bug
> > > since you can replace the `.' with any other character and it
> > > still sticks out one character.
> > 
> > When reporting such bugs it is immensely useful if you can tell us
> > whether or not the bug that was present in older versions and if so
> > which one is the latest one you know worked correctly.
> 
> I've no idea, sorry.  I believe that this behaviour is rather recent
> -- at least, I've never noticed it before, and I'm quite sensitive to
> such things.

This is much better than nothing.  Thank you,


	Stefan