how to enter a dot with whitespace preceding it?

Question

I'm getting Whitespace before punctuation mark in " ." when I'm trying to enter the word .Net with whitespace before it.

How can I fix that? What's the proper way of entering a . with whitespace preceding it?

. is a normal character so this is .NET would have a word-space before .NET what problem did you get? — David Carlisle, Oct 04 '13 at 18:05
Oh is that a warning from an editor? The warning is wrong, but you should say which editor that is (as such it is not really a TeX question). — David Carlisle, Oct 04 '13 at 18:06
@DavidCarlisle yes it's a warning in VIM, not sure how to get it out, I'll learn to live with it. — oblitum, Oct 04 '13 at 20:15
@DavidCarlisle well... I see a fight, it's not gonna be productive, I'm out... ;-) — oblitum, Oct 04 '13 at 20:18
You could probably silence the warning with something like this is\space.Net — David Carlisle, Oct 04 '13 at 20:23
\newcommand{\dotnet}{.Net} would solve. As well as avoiding vim. ;-) — egreg, Oct 04 '13 at 20:37
@david, egreg: oh you don't want to go there. Vanilla vi(m) doesn't do such nonsense, so it must be something else. — morbusg, Oct 04 '13 at 21:41

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '13 at 19:24

You're doing it right... as opposed to You're doing it wrong...

Depending on your workflow, it seems you're including lacheck. From the lacheck documentatation:

"...Sequences of whitespace followed by punctuation marks are also caught."

The output (warnings) from lacheck is filled with suggestions or guidelines to help improve typesetting and doesn't matter in this particular case. It's just a warning here and should not deter you from your typesetting adventures. In fact, the following is taken from the BUGS section of the documentation:

lacheck gets confused by advanced macros, is fooled by simple macros, can't figure out if you use a non-standard way to switch italic on or off, does not like TeX at all, does not provide any options to turn off specific warnings, and is at best a crude approximation.

So I'll stress again, you're doing it right when you consider dropping it from your regular workflow.

so, I think it's probably some extra useless editor check running on my editor. — oblitum, Oct 04 '13 at 20:19
@chico: You have a VIM plugin installed that runs in the background as part of the compilation process, I presume. — Werner, Oct 04 '13 at 20:22

how to enter a dot with whitespace preceding it?

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