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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Dan Griswold <kc5gmr@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: inter-word space in org -> latex
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 22:17:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pp1a2oqb.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGO+QKvqz_m0AcQgqwCSM-TA=92Bv1QYGQ0aiOCkHy=OZofEjQ@mail.gmail.com>


On 2015-09-14, at 16:42, Dan Griswold <kc5gmr@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear org-mode community,
>
> In LaTeX, a space after a period is treated as an inter-sentence space,
> which is wider than an inter-word space. This can lead to overly wide
> spacing after a period that ends an abbreviation rather than a space. The
> way to cover this in LaTeX is to use a backslash prior to the space, as in:
>
> Mr.\ Henry Higgins.
>
> I have some documents in org that have the same issue: periods concluding
> abbreviations, with the result that LaTeX puts more space than I want after
> the abbreviation. Yet the use of "\ " does not work, as the backslash is
> exported to LaTeX as a literal backslash.
>
> How should I mark in org mode that I want a space following a period
> concluding an abbreviation to be seen by LaTeX as an interword space?

#+LATEX_HEADER: \frenchspacing

and never worry again.

OTOH, it would be relatively easy to write a filter which converts Emacs
rules wrt. spaces (single/double space) into LaTeX ones.

BTW: Bringhurst claims that using larger spaces at the end of the
sentence is Bad Style™.

> Thanks,
>
> Dan


-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-22 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-14 14:42 inter-word space in org -> latex Dan Griswold
2015-09-14 16:50 ` Rasmus
2015-09-16 15:32   ` Dan Griswold
2015-09-14 16:54 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-09-16 15:33   ` Dan Griswold
2015-09-22 20:17 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-09-22 20:51   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-22 20:59     ` Rasmus

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