(NOT "french spacing" as with \frenchspacing.)
There are two things I should like to know. The first is probably simpler, but the second would be better.
1. Is it possible to get english / french spacing around "!", ";", "?", and "!" without selecting french as the language after whose rules words are split at the ends of lines, i.e. without \selectlanguage{french} ?
2. Is it possible to do this but also increase the space after the last period (or similar sign) in a sentence, e.g. to 1 em?
Thanks in advance.
Text Formatting ⇒ Old fashioned spacing.
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kaiserkarl13
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Old fashioned spacing.
Yes, there are two commands that can be used to override spacing when writing in English spacing mode.
To tell TeX to use a normal interword space, use \ (i.e., a backslash followed by a space). To get an end-of-sentence space after the period, use \@.
For example, compare the output of:
to
To tell TeX to use a normal interword space, use \ (i.e., a backslash followed by a space). To get an end-of-sentence space after the period, use \@.
For example, compare the output of:
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Prof.\ Smith has a program written in BASIC\@. It does a really nice job.
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Prof. Smith has a program written in BASIC. It does a really nice job.