> > same for e.g. versus e.g.\ and e.g. versus E.g. > > this is ueber-nitpicking: will anybody ever notice? > You did, apparently ;-) > Anyway, why should there be a \ after "e.g."? to be compliant with doxygen magic doxygen assumes that the first sentence of a description (terminated by a '.') is kind-of a summary of the text; doxygen puts some extra space after the first sentence if the first sentence reads "Bla bla e.g. bla bla." then doxygen detects the end of the first sentence after 'e.g.' (the first '.' followed by whitespace) "Bla bla e.g.\ bla bla." fixes this; the end of the first sentence is now correctly detected after 'bla.' regards, p. -- Peter Meerwald +43-664-2444418 (mobile)
