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Re: [Ada] gnat_rmtexi: Use @./@: where appropriate.


"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> However, when making such changes to the main manual I was told that
> style guides say that "e.g." and "i.e." should always be followed by
> a comma,

Fowler's Modern English Usage disagrees.  A comma should follow only
if the sentence structure mandates it.

> A closely related issue is that, for the Info output, all full stops
> ending sentences should be followed in Texinfo input by two spaces
> or by end of line.

Hmm, I'd rather like to patch makeinfo to do the right thing in these
cases. ;-)


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