[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54523] doc: link unmkpp with mkpp

[Michael Godfrey]

Follow-up Comment #14, bug #54523 (project octave):

Just for the record:
1. The standard terminology is:
   "English" spacing means 2 letter spaces after period at
   end of sentence.
   "French" spacing is one letter space. Somewhat surprisingly
   "French" has mainly actually meant "all non-English".
2. The Chicago handbook did switch even though by then
   actual typewriters (monospace) were fading away.
3. End of sentence spacing is fully discussed in Knuth's
   The TeXbook, Chap. 12. TeX and LaTeX still include
   \frenchspacing as a command which invokes "French" spacing. 

Wikipedia has a quite good story about all this at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing.

After all that, it seems to be the case that most people  have
gone with the new Chicago rule for plain monospace typewriter
use.

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