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From: John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>
To: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Sentences ending with `etc.'
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:01:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171111030105.GF16934@MacBook-Air-2.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd5b8895-5cfd-4bf9-878b-6630f6e9214a-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>

The reason we follow with nbsp is to prevent LaTeX
from treating the space as a "sentence ending space."

+++ Mikolaj Machowski [Nov 09 17 23:55 ]:
>BTW, in Polish typography shortcuts like etc. should be *preceded* by nbsp, not followed. Of course typography rules are different for different languages but I think also in English etc logically belongs to preceding words.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-11  3:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-09 16:04 Werner LEMBERG
     [not found] ` <20171109.170403.1361446875726483010.wl-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-09 16:24   ` Mikolaj Machowski
     [not found]     ` <86d3c91d-485f-4709-bca2-93cbd7afcbcb-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-10  6:10       ` Werner LEMBERG
     [not found]         ` <20171110.071007.1786491178331954318.wl-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-10  7:55           ` Mikolaj Machowski
     [not found]             ` <cd5b8895-5cfd-4bf9-878b-6630f6e9214a-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-11  3:01               ` John MacFarlane [this message]
2017-11-10  4:24   ` John MacFarlane
     [not found]     ` <20171110042455.GD70590-jF64zX8BO091tJRe0FUodcM6rOWSkUom@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-10  5:57       ` Werner LEMBERG
2017-11-11  8:40       ` Melroch
     [not found]         ` <CADAJKhADCA80g_keqHxoYwdeNBVEvuN_eGBGbRpzFvFeM5RRPg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-11-11 23:41           ` John MacFarlane
2017-11-12 22:58           ` John Muccigrosso

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