[texhax] correct spacing between adjacent quote marks

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Mon Oct 19 22:46:16 CEST 2009


On 18 October 2009 D. R. Evans wrote:

 > Reinhard Kotucha said the following at 10/18/2009 06:43 PM :
 > 
 > > Yes, a full stop is simply the ".".  However, the space after the full
 > > stop is usually larger than the normal interword space.  You don't
 > > want this extra space after an abbreviation.  You have to say
 > > 
 > >   abrr.\ some text
 > > 
 > > in this case in order to get normal interword glue.
 > 
 > Or turn on \frenchspacing.

\frenchspacing should be turned on globally only if you write in a
language where the space after a period should not be enlarged.  Is
\frenchspacing used in the UK?

 > Web:  http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR

Doc, what means N7DR here?  Sounds like an amateur radio call sign.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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