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From: Daniel Bausch <DanielBausch@gmx.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:35:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201108191135.11247.DanielBausch@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALPHr6xSRrVyNEXMhV=Q1X4mswLDxMqUGw40D11QtGoPLhwfoA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I'd like to note, that ".~" would lead to a hard space, that disallows a line 
break, so I think only ".\ " is correct, although Emacs M-q does not break 
after ". " with a single space, too, to be able to detect sentence ends.

Daniel

Am Freitag, 19. August 2011, 08:50:52 schrieb Andras Major:
> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   András

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-19  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-19  6:50 Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence Andras Major
2011-08-19  9:35 ` Daniel Bausch [this message]
2011-08-19 10:00 ` Stefan Nobis
2011-08-19 11:03   ` András Major
2011-08-19 13:51     ` William Henney
2011-08-19 18:39       ` András Major
2011-08-19 19:50         ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-19 11:22 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-08-19 14:55 ` Rasmus
2011-08-19 15:02   ` suvayu ali
2011-08-19 19:07 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-08-19 21:16 ` Bastien

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