From: William Henney <whenney@gmail.com>
To: "András Major" <andras.g.major@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:51:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKchnZNR20BumYo8pVt6ycXgKq8BZDTCukE4X3ssUQPOTnu_EQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110819T125942-618@post.gmane.org>
Hi András
2011/8/19 András Major <andras.g.major@gmail.com>:
>> > There is always a longer space between sentences than after a "."
>> > that doesn't mark the end of a sentence
>>
>> This could easily be turned off with the use of a single \frenchspacing
>> in the preamble (or in the document; you may switch between the two in
>> the document as often as you like; e.g. \frenchspacing is active
>> starting from the point TeX reads the macro until it is set back to
>> \nonfrenchspacing).
>
> I'm fully aware of that, but that also messes up the spacing between
> sentences. My proposed solution should be robust enough to be
> more-or-less foolproof yet produce nice-looking output.
>
What is nice-looking is a matter of personal taste. Personally, I tend
to prefer everything close-set, as with \frenchspacing, although that
is mainly because it is very easy to screw up with LaTeX's default
spacing, and then things look terrible. There is an interesting
discussion at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing
If you _do_ want to keep the wider inter-sentence spacing, then you
also need to worry about sentences that end with upper-case letters.
For instance, in LaTeX you should write:
"The paper by A. Major et~al.\ was discussed by the General Assembly
of the UN\@."
Without the "\@" LaTeX would not recognize the period following "UN"
to be sentence-ending. Note that there is no need to do anything
special after the "A."
If you are going to go this way, I think it should be optional. Not
everyone uses double spaces between sentences in their ascii text.
Cheers
Will
--
Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-19 13:51 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
2011-08-19 10:00 ` Stefan Nobis
2011-08-19 11:03 ` András Major
2011-08-19 13:51 ` William Henney [this message]
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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