On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:42:25AM -0400, Dan Griswold wrote:
> Dear org-mode community,
>
> In LaTeX, a space after a period is treated as an inter-sentence space,
> which is wider than an inter-word space. This can lead to overly wide
> spacing after a period that ends an abbreviation rather than a space. The
> way to cover this in LaTeX is to use a backslash prior to the space, as in:
>
> Mr.\ Henry Higgins.
>
> I have some documents in org that have the same issue: periods concluding
> abbreviations, with the result that LaTeX puts more space than I want after
> the abbreviation. Yet the use of "\ " does not work, as the backslash is
> exported to LaTeX as a literal backslash.
>
> How should I mark in org mode that I want a space following a period
> concluding an abbreviation to be seen by LaTeX as an interword space?
You can use entities. Maybe something like this:
(setq org-entities-user ; can also use "\ "
'(("space" "~" nil " " " " " " " ")))
Then the following:
Mr.\space{}Henry Higgins.
exports as:
Mr.~Henry Higgins.
Hope this helps,
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