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Re: [xml2rfc] assuming that period (.) ends a sentence is sometimes wrong

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Sun, 28 February 2021 18:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] assuming that period (.) ends a sentence is sometimes wrong
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On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 12:54:45PM -0500, John R Levine wrote:
> > Provided it doesn't also lose alternative Unicode whitespace characters,
> > using &emsp; is an option.  In a pinch we could have an element to mark
> > the end of a sentence (<s/>).
> 
> At the end of every sentence?  That's, uh, quite a stretch.  Are we sure
> this problem is worth that much effort by every author?

If some such markup were only needed when the sentence-ending-period
heuristic would fail, then its usage would be very rare.  Maybe
non-breaking spacing could be used for that?

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