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@: overused in manual

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 12973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12973: @: overused in manual
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 08:32:10 +0200

> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  12973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:11:53 +0100
> 
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:56:08 -0800 Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On 11/23/2012 03:51 PM, Stephen Berman wrote:
> >> 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."
> >
> > It assumes that "I.", "X.", "A.", and "B." do not end sentences.
> > To fix this in Texinfo, use "I@." instead of "I.", and similarly
> > for the others.
> >
> > This is documented in the Texinfo manual, though apparently the
> > documentation isn't clear enough.
> 
> I hadn't actually looked before, but I just did, and it's quite clear in
> (texinfo)Ending a Sentence.

But if one looks up @:, which is in another section, they will not see
that "X." doesn't need a @:.  And that is a problem, because "Not
Ending a Sentence" should have pointed to "Ending a Sentence" or told
explicitly that @: is not required in those cases.

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