From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: two spaces after sentence + other doc janitorial duties Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:51:04 GMT Message-ID: <201007120051.o6C0p4nE015502@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278898599 19020 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2010 01:36:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:36:39 +0000 (UTC) To: dsmich@roadrunner.com, guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 12 03:36:37 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 1OY7we-0004Q2-4E for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:36:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OY7wd-0006gM-51 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:36:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52767 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OY7Es-00061j-Re for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:51:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OY7Er-000623-NH for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from b0.f7.net ([66.148.120.132]:60254 helo=f7.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OY7Er-00061X-Gc for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:51:17 -0400 X-Envelope-From: karl@freefriends.org Original-Received: from f7.net (sls-af11p1 [127.0.0.1]) by f7.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o6C0p903015514; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:51:12 -0400 Original-Received: (from nobody@localhost) by f7.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/submit) id o6C0p4nE015502; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:51:04 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: nobody set sender to karl@freefriends.org using -f X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:36:18 -0400 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:10648 Archived-At: [Sorry if there has been later replies on this.] > >> Why is this the case? TeX itself gets this right, why can't makeinfo? There is no overwhelming reason, it's just the historical fact that it's never tinkered with intersentence spaces, aside from trying half-heartedly to detect sentences at the end of lines. rms wrote all this stuff originally, and in his world, the source files all have two spaces at the end of sentences already, for the sake of Emacs sentence commands. So there was no reason for him to have texinfo-format-buffer (or later makeinfo) to do anything. Perhaps one day it will, it's on the wishlist, but don't hold your breath. Sorry. karl