Re: Improving the spam.el documentation.

[Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>]

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.

> Er, it may be that texinfo, or the documentation, has a standard
> that I didn't spot, or that was changed when I hit M-q to reformat a
> paragraph; my Emacs is set to single-space after sentence mode.

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.

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Jesper Harder                                <http://purl.org/harder/>