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Re: [PATCH] manual: Document compiler and memory barriers
* Rafal Luzynski:
> 12.12.2019 13:41 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> * Rafal Luzynski:
>>
>> > [...]
>> > AFAIK "e.g.," should be "e.g.,@:" to avoid a long space which should
>> > normally be used between sentences.
>>
>> I think the Texinfo manual is incomplete. Clearly this does not happen
>> for all such periods, only those that are followed by whitespace in some
>> sense. It's not easy to infer this from the Texinfo sources, but I
>> think that . ? ! followed by any of " ' ) ] (, possibly with repeats,
>> followed by whitespace causes that whitespace to be widened. So “e.g.,”
>> should be fine on its own.
>
> I am not an expert but I was told this here:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-10/msg01302.html
>
> Also I think I did some tests by that time and indeed there was a difference
> in the PDF version. But maybe my memory is bad.
I just tried it, and I don't see a difference in following whitespace
between “e.g.,” and e.g.,@:”.
Thanks,
Florian