Re: lower case letter in @acronym and @abbr

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 09:52:29PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>       @abbr{aaa}. B.
> 
>     Should lead to
> 
>       aaa. B.
> 
> Really?  I'm inclined to say just the opposite.  Here the markup
> explicitly tells us that it is almost certainly an abbreviation and not
> someone's initials.  Therefore the special rule about capitals shouldn't
> apply and it should be a double space.  Why not?

Indeed, you're right.

> I agree the result, whatever it is, it shouldn't depend on the case of
> the argument.  (Right now it does, in TeX.)

Well, in fact it is not so easy to fix, so I add it to the TODO for now.

> BTW, looking at texinfo.tex, I see that I made a special rule for @abbr
> such that the space inside @abbr{Comput. J} is a normal interword space,
> not end-of-sentence.

It is done the same in texi2any.

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Pat