Re: Automatically escaping single spaces

[Ivan Andrus <darthandrus@gmail.com>]

Oops, forgot to reply to the list.

On Mar 18, 2013, at 9:59 PM, Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Suvayu,
> 
> I’ve had on my list of rainy day ideas for a while writing a function
> for org-export-filter-plain-text-functions that would implement
> something like this.  It should be as simple as doing a text replace,
> either on “. [^ ]” sequences in general or only spaces after a given
> list of abbreviations.  The advantage of the second approach is that it
> could catch the case where “e.g.” is at the end of a line in the org
> document.  (You’d also have to remove the newline: translate “e.g.\nfoo”
> into “e.g.\ foo”).  Another advantage to pre-specifying is that you might
> want a non-breaking space in “Fig.~1” but a breakable space in “e.g.\ foo”;
> so you could keep two lists.

FWIW, You shouldn't have to worry about newlines.  If Emacs is setup properly they should never appear except at sentence boundaries. Which is to say, autofill and fill-paragraph know not to break lines in the middle of a sentence after punctuation.  If the user adds a newline manually you can assume they meant it to be a new sentence.  IIRC the variable at play is `sentence-end-double-space'.

-Ivan