>> Please use two spaces after a full stop in documentation strings for
>> consistence.
>
> Since this is incorrect typographical practice,
It really depends. IIRC, the Chicaco manual of style recommended
this.
> and Lilypond prides itself on beautiful typography, I'm surprised
> this is the standard in the docs — why/how was this decision made?
There are two reasons.
1) Editors like Emacs benefit from having two spaces after a full
stop so they can recognize the end of a sentence properly -- in
contrast to an abbreviation which is followed by a single space
only.
2) The `info' program needs two spaces a full stop for similar
reasons.
Note that documentation in either HTML or PDF format created with
texinfo doesn't show those two spaces. It's just a means to better
organize the source code and not related to the output.
Werner
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