On 28 June 2015 at 19:09, Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think that a single space character could well appear after the "c." >> or "C." in both cases. > > Unless I am missing something the fact that C. doesn't lead to an end of > sentence is unrelated to whether it is in @w or not. An upper case > letter before a . never ends a sentence, as is in TeX.
That wasn't what I didn't know. The point is that the distinction between an upper-case letter before a . and a character that is not an upper-case letter before ., in a @w, is only heeded at the an end of a line. > End of sentence, and thus doubling of space in @w is indeed recognized > in @w. I didn't find it in archive, but I recall discussing that with > Karl. My very vague recalling is that it was to be consistent with TeX. In TeX I believe it's treated the same as if a single space appeared instead of the newline. When I tried it in TeX all the spaces in the output looked the same width. Thanks, Gavin
