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Re: End-of-sentence spacing
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Peter Schaffter |
Subject: |
Re: End-of-sentence spacing |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 12:30:09 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) |
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020, Dave Kemper wrote:
> I think you're confusing starting every sentence on its own line with
> using newlines nowhere *except* between sentences.
You are right. My distaste for hitting return instead of space
after a period clouded my reading of the advice. :)
> > Furthermore, since groff treats end of sentence characters followed
> > by one space, two spaces, or newlines identically when sentence
> > spacing is disabled (as it is by default),
>
> That *should* be true, but isn't
> (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58500). Some non-English-language tmac
> files disable wider sentence spacing, and perhaps some macro packages,
> but by default groff itself does not.
Perhaps I should have been more verbose and written: According
to the info(1) manual, initially both the WORD_SPACE_SIZE and
SENTENCE_SPACE_SIZE are 12; since this prevents SS from being larger
than WS, it effectively disables sentence spacing.
It just seemed easier to write "disabled by default."
--
Peter Schaffter
https://www.schaffter.ca
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- Re: End-of-sentence spacing, James K. Lowden, 2020/12/19
- Re: End-of-sentence spacing, Karthik Suresh, 2020/12/19
- Re: End-of-sentence spacing, Damian McGuckin, 2020/12/19
- Re: End-of-sentence spacing, Dave Kemper, 2020/12/19
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Peter Schaffter <=
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