From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [gdb/doc] Use '@:' after abbreviation
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:33:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wm0v1agl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260202141846.1863170-1-tdevries@suse.de> (message from Tom de Vries on Mon, 2 Feb 2026 15:18:46 +0100)
> From: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 15:18:46 +0100
>
> In gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo, we have:
> ...
> For every type there is also a default kind associated with it, e.g.@
> @code{Integer} in @value{GDBN} will internally be an @code{Integer*4} (see the
> table below for default types).
> ...
>
> While the @NL command [1] does probably prevent the sentence ending at 'e.g.',
> the usual way to accomplish this is to use '@:' [2], so use that instead.
>
> Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33868
>
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Multiple-Spaces.html
> [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Not-Ending-a-Sentence.html
> ---
> gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Thanks, this is OK.
Approved-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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