Re: Improving the spam.el documentation.

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On 8 Jun 2004, Jesper Harder wrote:
> Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:
>
>> On 8 Jun 2004, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>
> Ted, your message is missing on news.gnus.org.
>
>>> I thought there were always two spaces after a period.  Is Texinfo
>>> different?
>>
>> Nope. "French" spacing is two space after a period, and that is one
>> of the two major styles. The other is, of course, a single space
>> after a period.
>
> It's the other way around (at least in the Tex(info) world).
> \frenchspacing suppresses extra end-of-sentence space whereas
> \nonfrenchspacing (the default) puts extra space after punctuation in
> typeset output.

Ah, dang. I really /should/ have dug out my typography book and checked,
rather than relying on half-remembered information. I feel silly now.

[...]

> The standard in Texinfo is to use two spaces after a period:
>
> enter a period as you would if you were using a typewriter, which
> means you put two spaces after the period, question mark, or
> exclamation mark that ends a sentence.

Ah. Must beat `texinfo-mode' to reset the relevant variable, then.
    Daniel
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