From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: two spaces after sentence + other doc janitorial duties Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:04:41 -0400 Message-ID: <20100708170441.4YCPQ.130361.root@cdptpa-web12-z01> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278608696 21572 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2010 17:04:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 17:04:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= , Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 08 19:04:54 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWuWs-0005VU-CH for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:04:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51998 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWuWr-0000PC-Nm for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:04:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45945 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWuWl-0000O1-Ay for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWuWj-0000Lo-Pd for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:04:47 -0400 Original-Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.121]:54948) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWuWj-0000L1-Jv; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:04:45 -0400 Original-Received: from cdptpa-web12-z01 ([10.127.132.103]) by cdptpa-smta01.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20100708170441603.BLGF15754@cdptpa-smta01.mail.rr.com>; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 17:04:41 +0000 In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Sensitivity: Normal X-Originating-IP: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:10629 Archived-At: ---- Andy Wingo wrote:=20 > Heya Ludovic, >=20 > On Fri 02 Jul 2010 14:23, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: >=20 > > Andy Wingo writes: > > > >> On Fri 25 Jun 2010 18:35, Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > >> > >>> Normally, texinfo source should have two spaces after each sentence: > >>> > >>> Blah the first. Blah more. ;; only one space, not cool > >>> Blah the first. Blah more. ;; two spaces, ok > >> > >> Why is this the case? TeX itself gets this right, why can't makeinfo? > > > > I=E2=80=99m not sure whether/how TeX gets it right. >=20 > For TeX, the end of a sentence comes when a terminal punctuation mark > (e.g., `.' or `!') is followed by any amount of whitespace, and not > preceded by a capital letter. For example the period after the T in > "I.T. Department" does not end the sentence. >=20 > You do have to play tricks with TeX when you're doing something that > doesn't conform to its expectations; see "Inserting Space" in the > texinfo manual. >=20 > But since you have to placate TeX already, for print output, it seems > the one-space or two-space shenanigans are completely redundant, and > provide no new information. Info output is already reflowed in > paragraphs, I don't see why its textual rendering doesn't follow TeX's > rules rather than introducing its own redundancies on top of it. I think it's because the original texinfo -> info formatter was in emacs-li= sp, and wasn't smart enough to DTRT. I'm not sure if the makeinfo command is s= mart enough. -Dale