Hi, I'd like to note, that ".~" would lead to a hard space, that disallows a line break, so I think only ".\ " is correct, although Emacs M-q does not break after ". " with a single space, too, to be able to detect sentence ends.
Daniel Am Freitag, 19. August 2011, 08:50:52 schrieb Andras Major: > in TeX and LaTeX, the width of the glue (blank space) after a "." can > be one of two different values, depending on the context. There is > always a longer space between sentences than after a "." that doesn't > mark the end of a sentence (abbreviations, dates, etc.). Since > TeX/LaTeX usually can't recognize the latter case by itself, one can > help out by writing ".\ " or ".~" explicitly to enforce a short space. > Without these hints, printed output will look typographically wrong. > > Org-mode export doesn't allow me to easily include these hints without > affecting readability and export to other formats. Therefore I ask > that LaTeX export places ". " or ".\ " in the output automatically > depending on the context: > > - If, in the source, the "." precedes a double space " " or a newline, > use ". ". > > - In any other case, use ".\ ". > > The reason this would work is the Emacs convention of writing ASCII > such that there is at least one more space (at least two) between > sentences. I believe that the Emacs fill-* functions also make use of > this convention. > > Thanks, > > András
