You should look at real books instead.
> > in Tex you have to escape a period after an abbreviation
>
> I'm not a Tex user, so I don't know why Tex adds the extra space. But
> it seems to me that there should be no issue here.
Tex adds the extra space because that's how many if not most
typographers think it should be, Chi Manual or not.
> A WWW document (which uses proportional fonts) should have the same
> space between sentences as between words.
Xmosaic has correctly implemented more space after periods ending
a sentence. >
> Daniel Kehoe
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