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Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence |
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Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:23:44 +0200 |
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:44:54 +0700
> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Cc: Tom Kramer <kramer@cme.nist.gov>,
> "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> Differentiating between end-of-sentence full stop and in-sentence
> period by the number of spaces is an artifact of pre-Unicode
> typography. When the only available space was the ASCII 0x20, it made
> sense. Now it doesn’t, as we have the U+0020 SPACE, the U+00A0
> NON-BREAKING SPACE, and the U+2009/U+200A THIN SPACE and HAIR SPACE,
> respectively, as well as other fixed-width spaces.
But in the real world, there's still a lot of text with 2 spaces
between sentences, and Emacs needs to DTRT with that. An editor
cannot throw in the towel when it bumps into text that uses two
spaces.
- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, (continued)
- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2012/09/25
- line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Tom Kramer, 2012/09/25
- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2012/09/25
- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, T.F. Torrey, 2012/09/26
- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Tom Kramer, 2012/09/26
- RE: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Drew Adams, 2012/09/26
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- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Stefan Monnier, 2012/09/26
- RE: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Drew Adams, 2012/09/27
- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Stefan Monnier, 2012/09/27
- RE: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Drew Adams, 2012/09/27
- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Stefan Monnier, 2012/09/27
- RE: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Drew Adams, 2012/09/27
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- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Stefan Monnier, 2012/09/27
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