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No, it's not. It is normal space + extra space ± stretch’/shrink’ where spaces depend on font, stretch’ and shrink’ depend on normal stretch/shrink and spac
by lelf 13y ago
No, it's not. It is
normal space + extra space ± stretch’/shrink’
where spaces depend on font, stretch’ and shrink’ depend on normal stretch/shrink and space factor.
Not to mention \frenchspacing (TLDR: it's also language-dependend)
- SeanLuke 13y agoYou're being pedantic in muddying things with extra variables, namely the adjustment due to full justification. Let's simplify things and just consider ragged right. In this context, TeX is indeed approximately 1.5 spaces after a period, except for \frenchspacing, which uses 1 space. AFAIK, the reason TeX uses this default spacing is because Don thought it looked good.