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Won’t that mess up titles like Dr. Livingstone and Mr. President? Splitting text into sentences is actually really hard.
by wodenokoto 7y ago
Won’t that mess up titles like Dr. Livingstone and Mr. President?
Splitting text into sentences is actually really hard.
- gorgoiler 7y agoYup: Prof.\@ Crumb ...is the behavior suppressor.
- zonefuenf 7y agoI usually force a narrow space after titles: Dr.\,Livingstone
- yellowapple 7y ago> Splitting text into sentences is actually really hard. It would be a lot less hard if we were able to unambiguously tell the computer whether a period ends a sentence. I wonder how we could possibly do that... (Less sarcastically: a lot of Unix programs - Emacs, vim, troff, etc. - solve this problem by defaulting to double-spaced sentences, thus resolving the ambiguity. Kinda odd that this ain't the Tex approach; there's already precedent by using doubled-up ``backquotes'' and ``single quotes'' to produce “smart double quotes”, and lone `backquotes' and `single quotes' similarly become ‘smart single quotes’.)