6 Nov
2006
6 Nov
'06
1:39 p.m.
On 6 Nov 2006, at 14:29, Max Noel wrote:
On 11/6/06, Hans-Joerg Bibiko bibiko@eva.mpg.de wrote:
IIRC Emacs considers that a sentence ends with a period followed
with
either 2 spaces, a linefeed or a formfeed character.
The tricky thing is e.g. that if you write German usually you don't type two spaces after a period to indicate that is the end of a sentence. So, by my opinion, it is very difficult to define what is a 'sentence'.
Indeed. Actually, I don't think you actually do that in any language except Emacs (and perhaps LaTeX).
As far as I know, in former times usually you type two spaces after a period if you wrote with monospaced fonts. But I believe this is nowadays obsolete.
Hans