Heya Ludovic, On Fri 02 Jul 2010 14:23, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > >> On Fri 25 Jun 2010 18:35, Thien-Thi Nguyen <t...@gnuvola.org> 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’m 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 -- http://wingolog.org/
