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<h4 class="subsection">12.3.2 Not Ending a Sentence</h4>

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<p>When a period, exclamation point or question mark is
at the end of a sentence, slightly more space is
inserted after it in a typeset manual.
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<p>Usually, Texinfo can determine automatically when a period ends a 
sentence.  However, special commands are needed in some circumstances.
Use the <code>@:</code> command after a period, question mark, exclamation
mark or colon that should not be followed by extra space.  This is 
necessary in the following situations:
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<li> After a period that ends a lowercase abbreviation which is not at 
the end of a sentences.

</li><li> When a parenthetical remark in the middle of a sentence (like
this one!) ends with a period, exclamation point or question mark,
<code>@:</code> should be used after the right parenthesis.  Similarly for
right brackets and right quotes (both single and double).
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<p>For example:
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<pre class="example">&lsquo;<samp>foo vs.@: bar (or?)@: baz</samp>&rsquo;,
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<p>The first line below shows the output, and for comparison, the second 
line shows the spacing when the &lsquo;<samp>@:</samp>&rsquo; commands were not used.
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<p>foo vs. bar (or?) baz<br>
foo vs. bar (or?) baz
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<p>It may help you to remember what <code>@:</code> does by imagining that it 
stands for an invisible lower-case character that stops a word ending in 
a period.
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<p>A few Texinfo commands force normal interword spacing, so that you
don&rsquo;t have to insert <code>@:</code> where you otherwise would.  These are
the code-like highlighting commands, <code>@var</code>, <code>@abbr</code>, and
<code>@acronym</code> (see <a href="Useful-Highlighting.html#Useful-Highlighting">Useful Highlighting</a>).  For example, in
&lsquo;<samp>@code{foo. bar}</samp>&rsquo; the period is not considered to be the end of a
sentence, and no extra space is inserted.
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<p><code>@:</code> has no effect on the HTML or Docbook output.
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