On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 06:14:26PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Friday 2008-12-26 12:35, bb wrote: > > > > I think, that under all normal circumstances any punctuation mark MUST > > be followed by a whitespace and I think it would be a good idea to let > > that check > > But there should be no whitespace in, e.g., "e.g." and abbreviations > like T.L.A.P.D. (knowingly that they are often written as TLAPD anyway). > > No, I think the user needs to take care of it because no program > can automatically decide whether it is T.L.A.P.D. or T. L. A. P. D.
Indeed. Every such "clever doing of this or that" is bound to break sooner rather than later. So it's usually not desirable form a user's point of view. Not to mention the code complication that it makes it undesirable from a developer's point of view... Andre'
