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Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: a sentence ending in uppercase suppresses double space
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 12:26:49 +0300

> From: Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, Texinfo <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 11:08:54 +0200
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015, at 10:37, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden>
> > > http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/nano/doc/texinfo/nano.texi?revision=5346&root=nano&view=markup
> > 
> > That's a large file.  Which part is relevant to this discussion?
> 
> Ah, sorry.  Search for:  @t{"

I find this:

  @item -Q "@var{characters}"
  @itemx --quotestr="@var{characters}"
  Set the quoting string for justifying.  The default value is
  @t{"^([ \t]*[|>:@}#])+"} if extended regular expression support
  is available, and @t{"> "} otherwise.

Here the quotes inside @t seem redundant, as the whole @var is already
quoted.

Similarly in other instances of @t.

So I still don't understand why you need the quotes.  (Feel free to
disregard, if you are annoyed by my persistence.)

> > > The double quotes have to be shown because the user has to type them.
> > > It won't work without them, and other quotes won't work.
> > 
> > The proper markup for user input is @kbd.
> 
> Does the same thing as @samp in Info: it adds single quotes.

And it's the right thing, since the quotes in that case belong to what
should be typed, i.e. they are part of user input.



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