From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5B9D51382C5 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2018 09:55:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 068FDE0AF3; Tue, 3 Apr 2018 09:55:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blaine.gmane.org (unknown [195.159.176.226]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 884D8E0ADE for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2018 09:55:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f3IdE-0004bm-RG for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2018 11:53:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Martin Vaeth Subject: [gentoo-user] frenchspacing (was: Firefox and addons no longer supported question) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 09:53:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <7d2febad-b137-4186-9455-130be72fb0b1@gmail.com> <20180331030520.vby7azpgew4ggd2f@solfire> <0218c4fa-2f03-6ee2-b616-ad2a7c45a753@gmail.com> <20180331034530.npx5kaa7x5776l5y@solfire> <91c08771-62c4-a974-1e77-1372fcddf265@gmail.com> <20180402152117.4yni22lh57imfoa6@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <8b1fb04f-e93d-7a06-b02e-c8af2ddc9084@gmail.com> <91d584c2-9197-9029-992f-51086473d0ac@gmail.com> <20180402205030.GZ1974@ca.inter.net> X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 2dddef54-0355-486d-a207-744a446c39bd X-Archives-Hash: 214fe9e7a924de3aee233509cacb482d Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 2 April 2018 21:50:30 BST Philip Webb wrote: >> 180402 Dale wrote: >> > After each period at the end of a sentence, I put in two spaces, not one. >> > Something I was taught years ago somewhere and still do. >> > I only put one after a comma tho. >> >> That is correct professional secretarial style, which I always follow too. > > Correct? In what sense? For non-English languages it is unusual, but according to Knuth, it is tradition in professional English typesetting to increase (though usually not double) the amount of space between sentences: That's why some additional space is TeX default if you do not switch the behaviour off with \frenchspacing (the latter being default in many non-English languages). For details concerning fixed-width typewriters, I know only the tradition of my country which is \frenchspacing... I guess the section about French/English spacing in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing is rather exhaustive. >> > Could that be triggering something ? >> > I'm using Seamonkey set to send plain text to anything Gentoo related. >> >> IIRC HTML defaults to collapse double spaces to single [...] > > KMail also has an option to collapse double spaces to one. Since it is "forbidden" to collapse nonbreakable space, I guess that the seamonkey editor transforms additional spaces (maybe only if occurring after punctation signs) to nonbreakable space to make sure that it is not lost in display. You need a special editor/mode (like emacs) to optically distinguish breakable (\x20) and nonbreakable (\xa0 = \x20 | \x80) space.