[Tugindia] Spacing after sentences in Emacs/LaTex

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

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>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?

    kastrup> The TeX book contains information about this, as does the
    kastrup> LaTeX book.  Probably most other references should do so,
    kastrup> too.
    kastrup> Where have you looked for it?  Keywords: \frenchspacing,
    kastrup> \nonfrenchspacing, \@ (for LaTeX), \spacefactor (for the
    kastrup> involved TeX internals).
    kastrup> -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email:
    kastrup> David.Kastrup@t-online.de

Actually, from the emacs manual which I have reproduced below.  & the
Lamport book says \@ adds "extra space", that's it(p 14).  I don't
have the Texbook nor know TEX so can't say about that.  After reading
Lamport with the keywords you supplied, my Q is stupid.  Sorry.

,----
| sentence-end's value is 
| "[.?!][]\"')}]*\\($\\| $\\|	\\|  \\)[ 	\n]*"
| 
| Documentation:
| *Regexp describing the end of a sentence.
| The value includes the whitespace following the sentence.
| All paragraph boundaries also end sentences, regardless.
| 
| The default value specifies that in order to be recognized as the end
| of a sentence, the ending period, question mark, or exclamation point
| must be followed by two spaces, unless it's inside some sort of quotes
| or parenthesis.
| 
| See also the variable `sentence-end-double-space', the variable
| `sentence-end-without-period' and Info node `Sentences'.
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regards,
Sivaram
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