Re: Avoid double spaces around abbrevations in Texinfo

[Stefan Kangas]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:35:57 -0600, Stefan Kangas 
>>>>>> <stefankangas@gmail.com> said:
>
>     Stefan> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>     >> You tell makeinfo and TeX that the period doesn't end a sentence:
>     >>
>     >> To bind e.g.@: @samp{a}
>     >>
>     >> Then they will not insert another space.
>
>     Stefan> Thanks, I grepped around a little for these mistakes.  The 
> attached
>     Stefan> patch tries to correct them.  How does it look?
>
> <grumpy old man>
> I got to the first change and saw that you changed "e.g." to "for example"
> and stopped reading.
> </grumpy old man>

I agree to some extent, but we actually recommend this in (info "(elisp)
Documentation Tips").  At the time we added this to that section, I
looked into it, and it turns out that most sources recommend steering
well clear of these abbreviations.  For better or for worse.

I only really care to remove i.e./e.g. in free-flowing text, but usually
leave it alone at the start of parenthetical remarks.  You can see that
pretty much all abbreviations are left as is in my patch.  A handful
were expanded though.

I don't claim that the patch is ideal, of course.  If I thought that it
couldn't be improved, I would have installed it already.  :-)