[OS X TeX] Getting students to use LaTeX (and apa.cls)

Anthony Morton amorton at fastmail.fm
Sat Aug 19 04:06:36 EDT 2006


> And what when you go on to say, now let's write
>
>     Mr.\ Joe Smith
>
> because when TeX sees a space after a full stop it assumes it is the 
> end of a sentence and puts extra spacing, so when that is not the case 
> one should use backslash-space instead of space.

There are a large number of people around who actually think Word can 
distinguish between spaces at the end of sentences and spaces elsewhere 
and knows how to do the spacing correctly.  That includes anyone who 
doesn't see the need for tweaks like the above.

Tony M.
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