From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12973: @: overused in manual Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:43:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <50AFCDA1.8020500@cs.ucla.edu> <83a9u8t848.fsf@gnu.org> <50AFE19A.7020805@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353721477 1051 80.91.229.3 (24 Nov 2012 01:44:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:44:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12973@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 24 02:44:49 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1Tc4nY-0005J9-LT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 02:44:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51696 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc4nO-0001rz-1F for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:44:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57392) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc4nK-0001qr-Mv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:44:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc4nJ-000207-Nh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:44:34 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:53600) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc4nJ-000203-KK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:44:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc4ok-0002ih-A7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:46:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:46:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12973 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 12973-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12973.135372150210369 (code B ref 12973); Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:46:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12973) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Nov 2012 01:45:02 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35617 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc4nl-0002h4-CC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:45:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:52007) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc4ni-0002gm-CX for 12973@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:44:58 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tc4m2-0002GR-6a; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:43:16 -0500 In-reply-to: <50AFE19A.7020805@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:50:34 -0800) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67382 Archived-At: 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. Maybe other Texinfo formatters do not treat the capital letter as special. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call