> > AI is a bane of formatting.
It's getting better. <https://theconversation.com/give-this-ai-a-few-words-of-description-and-it-produces-a-stunning-image-but-is-it-art-184363> Though I still prefer smart practices and dumb <http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/W/well-behaved.html> programs, instead of the other way around. On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 at 09:01, Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcil...@dartmouth.edu> wrote: > AI is a bane of formatting. When Libre Office sees my name, M. Douglas > McIlroy, at the beginning of a line, it renders it by default as a > paragraph numbered with Roman numeral 1000 (and labels the next > paragraph MI). While groff is not so wild, it does have AI foibles in > intersentence spacing and in intersymbol spacing in eqn. > > To my eye, two spaces between sentences is excessive. So I often set > the sentence space to zero. The output looks fine; and AI never bites. > > Doug > >
