\frenchspacing is a command that causes all ordinary input spaces to have equal width in a line of output.
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Using \@-ified punctuation while using \frenchspacing
After reading this very informative TeX.SE thread about spacing and punctuation, I was left wondering about an issue that didn't seem to be addressed: using \frenchspacing together with the modified ...
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What is the ConTeXt equivalent of LaTeX “\@.”
In English text, TeX follows the convention of putting extra space after a period by default, which I like. However, in the case of abbreviations it causes a problem. To suppress the extra space, ...
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Strange microtype behaviour
I am trying to use the microtype package as illustrated in this page:
http://texblog.net/latex-archive/layout/pdflatex-microtype/.
But I am getting this output instead:
So any ideas why this is ...
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Implementing a sort of “tightened frenchspacing”
By default, (La)TeX adds extra space between sentences. The exact rules are in the TeXbook, a summary by TH. can be found here. What follows is is my "executive summary":
After any period (or ...
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\frenchspacing not setting the space factor codes correctly?
When I type \showthe\frenchspacing, I get the following output:
> \frenchspacing=macro:
->\sfcode `\.1006\sfcode `\?1005\sfcode `\!1004\sfcode `\:1003\sfcode `\;1002\sfcode `\,1001 .
Shouldn't all ...
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Double space between sentences.
I've been reading a question on spaces between sentences on a sister site. The answers there seem to imply that the days of double spacing between sentences are over, and that this was a relic of the ...
