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<h4 class="subsection">14.3.4 <code>@frenchspacing</code> <var>val</var>: Control sentence spacing</h4>

<p><a name="index-frenchspacing-677"></a><a name="index-French-spacing-678"></a><a name="index-Sentences_002c-spacing-after-679"></a><a name="index-Space_002c-after-sentences-680"></a>
In American typography, it is traditional and correct to put extra
space at the end of a sentence, after a semi-colon, and so on.  This
is the default in Texinfo.  In French typography (and many others),
this extra space is wrong; all spaces are uniform.

  <p>Therefore Texinfo provides the <code>@frenchspacing</code> command to
control the spacing after punctuation.  It reads the rest of the line
as its argument, which must be the single word &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">on</span></samp>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">off</span></samp>&rsquo;
(always these words, regardless of the language) of the document. 
Here is an example:

<pre class="example">     @frenchspacing on
     This is text. Two sentences. Three sentences. French spacing.
     
     @frenchspacing off
     This is text. Two sentences. Three sentences. Non-French spacing.
</pre>
  <p class="noindent">produces (there will be no difference in Info):

  <p>This is text. Two sentences. Three sentences. French spacing.

  <p>This is text. Two sentences. Three sentences. Non-French spacing.

  <p><code>@frenchspacing</code> mainly affects the printed output, including
the output after <code>@.</code>, <code>@!</code>, and <code>@?</code> (see <a href="Ending-a-Sentence.html#Ending-a-Sentence">Ending a Sentence</a>).

  <p>In Info, usually space characters in the input are written unaltered
to the output, and <code>@frenchspacing</code> does not change this.  It
does change the one case where <samp><span class="command">makeinfo</span></samp> outputs a space on
its own: when a sentence ends at a newline in the source.  Here's an
example:

<pre class="example">     Some sentence.
     Next sentence.
</pre>
  <p class="noindent">produces in Info output, with <code>@frenchspacing off</code>
(the default), two spaces between the sentences:

<pre class="example">     Some sentence.  Next sentence.
</pre>
  <p class="noindent">With <code>@frenchspacing on</code>, <samp><span class="command">makeinfo</span></samp> outputs
only a single space:

<pre class="example">     Some sentence. Next sentence.
</pre>
  <p><code>@frenchspacing</code> has no effect on the HTML or Docbook output;
for XML, it outputs a transliteration of itself (see <a href="Output-Formats.html#Output-Formats">Output Formats</a>).

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