Re: Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Aug 19, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Andras Major wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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.

+1

I do like this idea.  I am a big fan of the Emacs convention
to use two spaces after a sentence - such a big fan that I have trouble
reading ascii text where this convention is not used.

- Carsten