Subject: bug#12973: @: overused in manual

From: Stephen Berman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:51:27 +0100

On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:50:34 -0800 Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 11/23/2012 11:46 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Why do you say it has no effect in this case?
>
> It has no effect in TeX because TeX already does
> the right thing with initials.  TeX assumes that
> "." ends a sentence unless it's preceded by a capital
> letter.  "Jay K. Adams" has a capital letter before
> the period so no @: is needed after the period.

What does TeX do with sentences like these:

"Mary would never do that, nor would I.  Would you?"
"We met the mysterious Madame X.  She's younger than I thought."
"Walk ten paces to point A.  Turn left, then walk 7 paces to point B."

Steve Berman