On 03/25/16 08:36, Ali Corbin wrote: > On Mar 25, 2016 8:07 AM, "Rich Shepard" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > ... >> measures are difficult to interpret as suitable for fish and >> wildlife. Biological-based standards of water quality are more useful >> >> The 'd' in "and" is on column 59; when I place "wildlife" on that line the >> space after the '.' is in column 70. So, why is the \n placed between > "and" >> and "wildlife." when I reformat using M-q? >> > > I've noticed this too, but only when I've pasted text into Emacs. My trick > is to add a second space after the period. > > Now I went to school in the dark ages, and was taught to put two spaces > between sentences. I presume that Emacs is of the same vintage, and has > somehow decided that dot-single-space isn't really a word separator. But > I'm sure there's a setting you can change if you prefer single spaces > between sentences.
<http://www.gocomics.com/bloom-county/2015/10/01> Be sure to see the strips from Oct 2 and 4 too. galen -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
