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I still prefer to use two spaces after a period. (Genuinely asking) Are modern typesetting software applications able to tell when a dot is really an end-of-se
by alok-g 14y ago
I still prefer to use two spaces after a period.
(Genuinely asking) Are modern typesetting software applications able to tell when a dot is really an end-of-sentence marker and when it is not? I know this is not too hard but getting it right everytime is.
- SlyShy 14y agoBased on my experience writing this Ruby library (https://github.com/SlyShy/Tactful_Tokenizer/ https://github.com/SlyShy/Tactful_Tokenizer/) it's a somewhat difficult challenge. Most programs don't bother doing it accurately, as a naive solution will get you 80% of the way there. Of course, if you actually care about sentences (like I do), that's unacceptable.