From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Spaces after periods
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:30:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wprx9n7q.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2mvstyylt.fsf_-_@newartisans.com> (John Wiegley's message of "Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:05:18 -0800")
John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> +with the Greek lambda character @samp{λ}. In a TeX buffer, it will
>> ^^ ^^^
>> 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
> convention anymore.
It is the Emacs convention, however, making it possible for Emacs to
distinguish abbreviations from sentence ends when wrapping lines. It is
modelled after the conventions for _typewriters_. Typewriting fonts are
monospace, and as a text editor rather than a word processor, typical
Emacs usage involves quite a bit of monospace fonts.
> A quick Google shows many, many sites that indicate that the modern
> convention is now one space, and none that recommend two spaces.
I suspect that it's more of a "trust your word processor to figure out
the proper spacing" thing.
> I've even changed to one space in my e-mails, even, after being a long
> holdout for the two space rule.
Well, Emacs does not wrap lines nicely with single spaces. You can, of
course, customize sentence-end-double-space. But then Emacs can no
longer distinguish sentence ends from abbreviations reliably.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-29 17:30 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20151212115202.16784.72345@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <E1a7iiY-0004NK-Ky@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-12-15 1:36 ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 3e14bad: Document new features of Prettify Mode John Wiegley
2015-12-15 3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-15 6:10 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-15 17:51 ` Shakthi Kannan
2015-12-15 17:58 ` Documenting NEWS features for 25.1 (was: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 3e14bad: Document new features of Prettify Mode) John Wiegley
2015-12-15 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-16 6:09 ` Shakthi Kannan
2015-12-16 6:44 ` Documenting NEWS features for 25.1 John Wiegley
2015-12-16 7:59 ` Shakthi Kannan
2015-12-16 10:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-16 10:36 ` Shakthi Kannan
2015-12-16 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-16 12:29 ` Shakthi Kannan
2015-12-21 17:09 ` Shakthi Kannan
2015-12-21 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-24 16:49 ` Shakthi Kannan
2015-12-25 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-28 17:25 ` Shakthi Kannan
2015-12-29 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-29 17:05 ` Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1) John Wiegley
2015-12-29 17:30 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-12-29 17:32 ` Nikolai Weibull
2015-12-29 17:58 ` Ingo Lohmar
2015-12-29 19:05 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-12-29 21:05 ` Nikolai Weibull
2015-12-30 7:46 ` Spaces after periods Random832
2015-12-30 7:59 ` Nikolai Weibull
2015-12-29 18:15 ` Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1) Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-29 19:56 ` Spaces after periods John Wiegley
2015-12-30 5:40 ` Documenting NEWS features for 25.1 Shakthi Kannan
2015-12-30 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-31 5:33 ` Shakthi Kannan
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