_Plain_ TeX, you mean. You can design formats that will handle these things
pretty much however you please, by fiddling with character codes and space
factors, font settings, etc. That's the great thing about it, the level of
abstraction is so high.
By the way, if I'm not mistaken, Knuth wrote the whole thing out longhand
before he ever entered a line of code in at the keyboard. Hardly the work
of a man wedded to the typewriter.
-grrrrrregg.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfieber@indiana.edu [mailto:jfieber@indiana.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 4:22 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Cc: Unicode List
> Subject: Re: TeX (was: apostrophe etc.)
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Scott Horne wrote:
>
> > I'm well aware of that, as is Donald E Knuth, the designer of TeX.
> > TeX disregards extra spaces in the input; whether you type one or
> > thirty-seven spaces after a full stop (or even between words),
> > TeX will set the text the same.
> >
> > The usual spacing after a period, comma, or other
> punctuation mark is
> > the same as the space between words.
>
> Oh? Not according to the TeXbook. You got the glue part
> right--the glue at sentence boundaries and commas is more
> elastic--but independent of that, TeX *also* puts more space at
> sentence boundaries before elasticity enters the picture. See
> p72.
>
> -john
>
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