From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?b?QW5kcsOhcw==?= Major Subject: Re: Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:39:50 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuTzC-00046i-0g for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:40:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuTzA-0002C3-SA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:40:05 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48777) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuTzA-0002BI-N0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:40:04 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QuTz8-0000Ty-Lo for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:40:02 +0200 Received: from dslb-092-074-177-167.pools.arcor-ip.net ([92.74.177.167]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:40:02 +0200 Received: from andras.g.major by dslb-092-074-177-167.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:40:02 +0200 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Will, > > 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 For that, you can use \frenchspacing in the latex header. > 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. True, but that is, in my experience, a very rare thing to happen. In all the years of writing documents in (La)TeX, I don't think I've had a single occurrence of this case. You can, of course, make the export code even more sophisticated and check for this case and adapt the output accordingly. Then the only rule for the user to remember would be as simple as this: single space in org maps to inter-word space in the output, double space maps to inter-sentence space. > 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. I think that the same people wouldn't mind slightly wrong spacing in the printed output either. András