i.e. and xspace
Daniel Brewer
\newcommand{\ie}{i.e.\xspace}
and in the main file I have:
... the behaviour of the model matches biological data, \ie to
determine the parameters ...
but this seems to add two spaces after the "i.e.". The only was round
it that I can find is to
\newcommand{\ie}{i.e.\ }
Is there any other way round this?
Thanks
Ulrike Fischer
TeX puts some extra space after a point. You can either use
\frenchspacing to get rid of this space everywhere. Or you can disable
it with \newcommand{\ie}{i.e.\@\xspace} or
\newcommand{\ie}{i.e\mbox{.}\xspace}
Btw: In the TeXBook Knuth claims that there should always be a comma
after i.e. and e.g..
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Frank Mittelbach
> Btw: In the TeXBook Knuth claims that there should always be a comma
> after i.e. and e.g..
not only Don claims that ...
frank
Daniel Brewer
wrong.
Peter Flynn
> I think you can get away without the comma in the UK, but I could be
> wrong.
Isn't the comma after i.e., and e.g., just the MLA pretending it's
still the 19th century?
///Peter
Marc Cooper
> Btw: In the TeXBook Knuth claims that there should always be a comma
> after i.e. and e.g..
Surely you mean "... and e.g.,.".
Just proves that the Don isn't perfect.
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Marc
Robin Fairbairns
:-| [*]
for myself, notwithstanding peter f's remark, i punctuate according to
how the thing reads to me: and when i read, i tend to expand the
abbreviation and to translate it, so "i.e".->"that is", "e.g."-> "for
example". there _are_ occasions when they don't need punctuation of
their own; and they certainly don't at the end of a sentence (though
it would be awful writing to have either at the end of a sentence,
unless (as above) the abbreviation itself was being discussed.
[*] just enough amusement content to prevent me being annoyed by
fatuity...
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Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge