From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Henney Subject: Re: Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:51:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44194) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuPTh-0000dG-FZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:51:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuPTg-0000BU-Au for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:51:17 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:40178) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuPTg-0000BO-8R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:51:16 -0400 Received: by gxk23 with SMTP id 23so2400485gxk.0 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:51:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E1s_Major?= Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Andr=E1s 2011/8/19 Andr=E1s Major : >> > 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. =A0My 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 --=20 =A0 Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronom=EDa y Astrof=EDsica, =A0 Universidad Nacional Aut=F3noma de M=E9xico, Campus Morelia