Possibly you are right. I think the answer is largely historical. That is how TeX works and has done for 30 years.
The style wars regarding the placement of dots has always been a controversial
one. Should one write :
These are the methods of the N.S.A.
or
These are the methods of the NSA.
I think the former was perfered 30 years back. Today the latter style is
comming into favour.
However, TeX is not going to change now, so I doubt Texinfo will either.
Period!
On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 04:05:38AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Hi,
The current rule for sentence ending is:
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14.3.3 Ending a Sentence
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As mentioned above, Texinfo normally inserts additional space after the
end of a sentence. It uses a simple heuristic for this: a sentence ends
with a period, exclamation point, or question mark followed by optional
closing punctuation and then whitespace, and _not_ preceded by a capital
letter.
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I wonder why such an exception "_not_ preceded by a capital letter".
It seems a bad choice. Some acronyms end with a capital letter, and
such acronyms are usually written without periods, so that most often
Texinfo will do a wrong guess. See the acronyms on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym
for instance. An acronym can also mix cases and end with a capital
letter, e.g. "NaN" (for Not-a-Number).
IMHO, the exception should be removed, or changed to: except in the
case of a period preceded by a sequence of letters consisting of only
one capital letter.
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