[TxMt] Duplicating "kill-sentence" in TM

Hans-Joerg Bibiko bibiko at eva.mpg.de
Mon Nov 6 13:39:17 UTC 2006


On 6 Nov 2006, at 14:29, Max Noel wrote:

> On 11/6/06, Hans-Joerg Bibiko <bibiko at 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




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