Re: [O] Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence

2011-08-19 Thread Bastien
Hi Andras, Andras Major writes: > - If, in the source, the "." precedes a double space " " or a newline, > use ". ". > > - In any other case, use ".\ ". I wonder how such a function would look like. Does anyone wants to try to write it? Even pseudo-code would be fine at this stage. > The

Re: [O] Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence

2011-08-19 Thread Sebastien Vauban
Hi all, András Major wrote: >> > I'm fully aware of that, but that also messes up the spacing between >> > sentences. My proposed solution should be robust enough to be >> > more-or-less foolproof yet produce nice-looking output. >> >> What is nice-looking is a matter of personal taste. Personal

Re: [O] Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence

2011-08-19 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Andras Major writes: > Hi, > > 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, et

Re: [O] Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence

2011-08-19 Thread András Major
Hi Will, > > I'm fully aware of that, but that also messes up the spacing between > > sentences. My proposed solution should be robust enough to be > > more-or-less foolproof yet produce nice-looking output. > > What is nice-looking is a matter of personal taste. Personally, I tend > to prefer e

Re: [O] Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence

2011-08-19 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Rasmus wrote: > Andras Major writes: > >> 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 >> dependi

Re: [O] Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence

2011-08-19 Thread Rasmus
Andras Major writes: > 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: I would like something like this to

Re: [O] Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence

2011-08-19 Thread William Henney
Hi András 2011/8/19 András Major : >> > There is always a longer space between sentences than after a "." >> > that doesn't mark the end of a sentence >> >> This could easily be turned off with the use of a single \frenchspacing >> in the preamble (or in the document; you may switch between the tw

Re: [O] Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence

2011-08-19 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Aug 19, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Andras Major wrote: > Hi, > > 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 sente

Re: [O] Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence

2011-08-19 Thread András Major
> > There is always a longer space between sentences than after a "." > > that doesn't mark the end of a sentence > > This could easily be turned off with the use of a single \frenchspacing > in the preamble (or in the document; you may switch between the two in > the document as often as you like

Re: [O] Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence

2011-08-19 Thread Stefan Nobis
Andras Major writes: > Hi, > in TeX and LaTeX, the width of the glue (blank space) after a "." can > be one of two different values, depending on the context. And depending on the use of \nonfrenchspacing and \frenchspacing. > There is always a longer space between sentences than after a "." >

Re: [O] Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence

2011-08-19 Thread Daniel Bausch
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 Majo

[O] Wishlist: LaTeX export: automatically append backslash to "." unless at end of sentence

2011-08-18 Thread Andras Major
Hi, 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'