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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: </p> <ol> <li> After a period that ends a lowercase abbreviation which is not at the end of a sentence. </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). </li></ol> <p>For example: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">‘<samp>foo vs.@: bar (or?)@: baz</samp>’, </pre></div> <p>The first line below shows the output, and for comparison, the second line shows the spacing when the ‘<samp>@:</samp>’ commands were not used. </p> <blockquote> <p>foo vs. bar (or?) baz<br> foo vs. bar (or?) baz </p></blockquote> <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. </p> <p>A few Texinfo commands force normal interword spacing, so that you don’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">Highlighting Commands are Useful</a>). For example, in ‘<samp>@code{foo. bar}</samp>’ the period is not considered to be the end of a sentence, and no extra space is inserted. </p> <p><code>@:</code> has no effect on the HTML or DocBook output. </p> </div> <hr> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Ending-a-Sentence.html">Ending a Sentence</a>, Previous: <a href="Multiple-Spaces.html">Multiple Spaces</a>, Up: <a href="Inserting-Space.html">Inserting Space</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> </body> </html>