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Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?
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David Reitter |
Subject: |
Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work? |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:10:48 +0000 |
On 13 Feb 2008, at 20:00, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Because AFAIK it's still Chicago Manual of Style-standard to follow a
sentence-ending period with two spaces in typed documents. (Even with
a proportional font, Emacs will not insert extra visual space to
delimit a sentence unless it's present in the document.)
I don't have the Chicago Manual of Style here, but may I quote from
Wikipedia (from the French_spacing article):
===
Recently some widely-used American style guides, notably the Chicago
Manual of Style, call for a single space after full stops and colons.
[86][87] In chapter 6 Punctuation
section 3 Typographic and Aesthetic Considerations, for example, the
Chicago Manual of Style states:
6.11 Space between sentences
In typeset matter, one space, not two (in other words, a regular
word space), follows any mark of punctuation [sic] that ends a
sentence, whether a period, a colon [sic], a question mark, an
exclamation point, or closing quotation marks.
The FAQ to the Chicago Manual of Style explicitly states that the
"traditional American practice" is to double-space after colons and
periods (without mentioning semi-colons) but then states that "This
practice is discouraged by the University of Chicago Press".[88]
===
But whatever the manual says, why impose on the user?
On 13 Feb 2008, at 20:36, Stefan Monnier wrote:
The problem is that "half the world" doesn't know that "the other
half"
uses 2-spaces after a ".". So the docstring of
sentence-end-double-space should probably explain that this is
a convention used throughout North America (AFAICT).
I wonder whether this is either something that should be part of MULE.
Or, won't setting `sentence-end-double-space' to nil make it work in
most other cases?
The regular expression could be improved to recognize abbreviations
correctly.
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, (continued)
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, David Reitter, 2008/02/13
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/02/13
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/13
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, David Reitter, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Robert J. Chassell, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, David Reitter, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Miles Bader, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Jonathan Rockway, 2008/02/15
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?,
David Reitter <=
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Miles Bader, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, David Reitter, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Miles Bader, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, David Reitter, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/02/14
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/13
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Thorsten Bonow, 2008/02/13
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Miles Bader, 2008/02/13
- Re: paragraphs.el: do forward-sentence and friends not work?, Robert J. Chassell, 2008/02/13