List: What method should one use to code whitespace after a period as
being sentence-ending, not midsentence, when not employing French
spacing? For example, if one writes
"... John Doe, PhD. Next sentence x y z ... ."
the space in "PhD. Next".
In LaTeX, we have "\@. " (code whitespace following puctuation mark as
sentence-separating length) and "\ " (code space as intrasentence
length) to adjust the magical behavior of ASCII spaces. By
experimentation I have found that "Prof.\ Smith" works as expected in
ConTeXt but "PhD\@. Next sentence ..." is a nonexistent control code.
Prof. Smith % heuristic thinks that the period ends a sentence ---
wrong typesetting behavior
Prof.\ Smith % coded as space after abbreviation not
sentence-separating space --- correct typesetting behavior under English
spacing regime
versus:
PhD\@. Next sentence % Official LaTeX method, nonexistent control
References:
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/French_spacing Not helpful alas.
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