From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work? Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <7BC345E9-711F-48AE-AF7F-CD3C51E96A47@gmail.com> <692473D9-ADB4-4485-ADA7-B46DF6CCCD9E@gmail.com> <87wsp87hkj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202998998 14177 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2008 14:23:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:23:18 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 14 15:23:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JPezw-0004VY-Fs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:23:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JPezS-0002ty-Il for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:23:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JPezN-0002t8-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:23:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JPezK-0002sU-Mw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:23:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JPezK-0002sR-GJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:22:58 -0500 Original-Received: from cpe-69-204-130-115.nycap.res.rr.com ([69.204.130.115] helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JPezK-0001MM-7V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:22:58 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:22:57 +0000 (UTC) In-reply-to: (message from David Reitter on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:45:01 +0000) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89077 Archived-At: Note that a 13th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, copyright 1982, does not speak of end of line spaces for regular text, but its physical embodiment puts more space after a sentence than between words within a sentence. (I have not seen a more recent Chicago Manual of Style, physical or otherwise.) But whatever the manual says, why impose on the user? As of this morning, 2008 Feb 14, we see in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_spacing this: * "rivers" of whitespace do not distract readers * widened spaces between sentences improve reader comprehension and reader comfort Unusually for sociological research -- extraordinarily so -- no valid or even scientific studies have materially contradicted these findings. -- Robert J. Chassell GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 bob@rattlesnake.com bob@gnu.org http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc