[Geiser-users] Patches to standardize spacing between sentences

[Mark Harig]

The standard used in the Emacs, Guile, Texinfo, and Emacs Lisp manuals 
is to separate
sentences (statements, questions, exclamations) with two spaces after 
the final
punctuation (see the Info node (Emacs) Sentences).  In addition to 
helping readability,
this format allows the writer to move forward and backward between 
sentences using
the `forward-sentence' (M-e) and `backward-sentence' (M-a) commands.  
If only one
space is used between sentences, then these commands move the point 
forward and
backward by paragraphs, which is already provided for with the 
`forward-paragraph'
(M-}) and `backward-paragraph' (M-{) commands.

Using a simple-minded sed script, I added a space between all sentences 
that were
separated by a single space:

$ cd geiser/doc
$ sed -r -e 's/(\.|\?|\!) /\1  /g' filename.texi > newfile.texi

and then checked the results to remove the mistakes (for example, 
"...cf.  @ref...").

Here is a set of patch files to add the space between sentences.  This 
is a white-space-
only change.  Once these patches have been applied, then

$ diff --ignore-space-change  original-file  new-file

should produce no output.

install.texi.patch
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intro.texi.patch
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parens.texi.patch
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repl.texi.patch
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thanks.texi.patch
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top.texi.patch
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