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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 12973@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12973: @: overused in manual
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:47:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <837gpct2jb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50AFE19A.7020805@cs.ucla.edu>

> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:50:34 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: 12973@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On 11/23/2012 11:46 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Why do you say it has no effect in this case?
> 
> It has no effect in TeX because TeX already does
> the right thing with initials.  TeX assumes that
> "." ends a sentence unless it's preceded by a capital
> letter.  "Jay K. Adams" has a capital letter before
> the period so no @: is needed after the period.

This ought to be in the Texinfo manual, then.  I suggest to report
this to Texinfo maintainers, because the latest manual doesn't mention
that.





  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-23 21:47 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 [this message]
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
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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