[Tugindia] Spacing after sentences in Emacs/LaTex

[David Kastrup]

Sivaram Neelakantan <sivaram.neelakandan@wipro.com> writes:

> In Emacs, sentences are recognised by the fact that it starts after 2
> spaces after a period.  I believe this is the american way of doing
> it(at least that's how it says in manual).  Does latex too, do the
> same?  I mean when typeset, it doesn't appear to leave 2 spaces, so
> what convention does it use?  If space between sentences is actually a
> rubber length which can be stretched or squeezed depending on the line
> being typeset, how does it typeset a new sentence?

The TeX book contains information about this, as does the LaTeX
book.  Probably most other references should do so, too.

Where have you looked for it?
Keywords: \frenchspacing, \nonfrenchspacing, \@ (for LaTeX),
\spacefactor (for the involved TeX internals).

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