From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: two spaces after sentence + other doc janitorial duties Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:10:34 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87tyorqddl.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <87aaqauiep.fsf@gnu.org> 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 1278587493 6082 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2010 11:11:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:11:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 08 13:11:31 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 1OWp0s-0004kD-Hw for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:11:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39617 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWp0r-0006B9-H9 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:11:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39245 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWp0l-00068a-Ud for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWp0k-00039b-ES for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:47848 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWp0k-00036k-CU; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38373C1C3D; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:11:01 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=fuyFzQtxLEHG 2aP3tZkqnD471RQ=; b=cKr8SmjEEkacXdWABw6u8AKTnrYM/g1ZIgIDwFjmh+E8 +Cf+9kzp14PU5tfgn1tWN6nvrnkjHvVX1iunEgmf2Lom+dNtPjY0mBNqpbLHpBJj ZACtEJ4pfJyI8xxpVKcxN7BJtn+CulqMcPq72yO8MoaLOSISK3WkIxFEWnJYuzQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=nsvIU/ n07xx91kqyP0a+Bm9eZTxs4Yh7zMw4nV0iQZqSVlMLjNfSJtp3MpXAL30+jQsAjm uSXk3ClFJtmTpTnt4z4iTUwLAy2WI3VW3vsbmMCmjiKDw5iK4qFHsna6dWpolGr5 mQ6VMFeuoGDzeI2w+AIkdfb9Tt+E9gbXxMivA= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22AD3C1C3C; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:11:00 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote.localdomain (unknown [81.253.44.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 88052C1C3B; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:10:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87aaqauiep.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s=22'?= =?utf-8?Q?s?= message of "Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:23:26 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 7D3FBD98-8A81-11DF-8281-9056EE7EF46B-02397024!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:10626 Archived-At: Heya Ludovic, On Fri 02 Jul 2010 14:23, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > 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. 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. 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. 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. If it is how it must be for GNU, though, then I will try to change. But I don't like it. Andy --=20 http://wingolog.org/