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Re: [Ada] gnat_rmtexi: Use @./@: where appropriate.
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: [Ada] gnat_rmtexi: Use @./@: where appropriate.
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 10:05:50 +0100
- Cc: <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110262202500.13409-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>
"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. ;-)