Re: first help sentence truncated

[John W. Eaton]

On 08/29/2018 05:06 PM, Rik wrote:
> On 08/29/2018 01:41 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Just a question, but why instead of re-inventing the english language,
> > do not chekc for period followed by non-characters strings and end of
> > line?
> > something in the lines of (assuming non-greedy *):   '.*[.]\W*$'
> > I do not see why a regex cannot handle abbreviations vs. periods.
> That would catch multiple sentences.  For example,


It seems to me we could use the same rules as Texinfo (based on the 
rules for TeX) for determining the ends of sentences and then require 
the extra work for those cases when the rules aren't sufficient.  The 
Texinfo rules may be found here:


https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/texinfo.html#Ending-a-Sentence

and


https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/texinfo.html#Not-Ending-a-Sentence

I wouldn't work too hard on this, but it seems fairly straightforward if 
someone who is interested.

Also, for the record, I generally type two spaces at the end of a 
sentence.  It seems natural to me, as it's a habit formed many years ago 
when learning to type on real typewriters with fixed-space characters. 
But I also realize that style is falling out of favor now, even when 
using fixed-width fonts or lousy "word processors" that don't 
automatically insert the extra space at ends of sentences that one would 
expect to see with good quality typesetting.

jwe