[Scribus] Re: On extra space [bug 424]

VANEK Petr Petr.VANEK
Fri Apr 30 09:02:29 CEST 2004


> AFAIK, spacing after the period is language-dependent. E.g. 
> in English 
> (American?) typography you normaly put a larger space after 
> the period than 
> between other pairs of words, and also TeX takes this into account 
> automatically. On the other hand, in German (and probably in 
> a lot of other 
> languages) there is no extra space after the period. 
> Consequently, the German 
> language pack for TeX has this special English spacing rule disabled.

sure. IMHO all east europe uses std. space after the period.

p.




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