On Aug 19, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Andras Major wrote: > Hi, > > in TeX and LaTeX, the width of the glue (blank space) after a "." can > be one of two different values, depending on the context. There is > always a longer space between sentences than after a "." that doesn't > mark the end of a sentence (abbreviations, dates, etc.). Since > TeX/LaTeX usually can't recognize the latter case by itself, one can > help out by writing ".\ " or ".~" explicitly to enforce a short space. > Without these hints, printed output will look typographically wrong. > > Org-mode export doesn't allow me to easily include these hints without > affecting readability and export to other formats. Therefore I ask > that LaTeX export places ". " or ".\ " in the output automatically > depending on the context: > > - If, in the source, the "." precedes a double space " " or a newline, > use ". ". > > - In any other case, use ".\ ". > > The reason this would work is the Emacs convention of writing ASCII > such that there is at least one more space (at least two) between > sentences. I believe that the Emacs fill-* functions also make use of > this convention.
+1 I do like this idea. I am a big fan of the Emacs convention to use two spaces after a sentence - such a big fan that I have trouble reading ascii text where this convention is not used. - Carsten
