Bug#429701: texinfo: inconsistency concerning the number of spaces after a period

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2013-08-02 23:03:09 +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>        Foo.  Bar.
>        Foo.  Bar.
>        Foo.  Bar.
>        NaN. Bar.
>        NaN. Bar.
>        NaN. Bar.
>     with texinfo 5.1.dfsg.1-4 (I've removed the blank lines).
> 
> What are you reporting?  The above looks correct to me; the previous
> behavior (of preserving intersentence spacing in some situations) was a
> deficiency, although admittedly a longstanding one.

There should be a double-space in both cases:

  Foo.  Bar.
  NaN.  Bar.

or a single space in both cases:

  Foo. Bar.
  NaN. Bar.

There's no reason to treat two different words such as "Foo" and "NaN"
differently.

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