From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 28 12:44:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C69715403; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 12:44:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA86195; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 12:44:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37C83C2E.904BC997@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 12:44:46 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0826 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please review: rc file changes References: <199908271705.LAA24405@mt.sri.com> <19990828111254.A79158@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:23:06AM -0700, Doug wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > > > Sentences are supposed to have two spaces before you start the next > > > sentence. > > > > Well, that was definitely the old typographical convention, but in > > the digital age it's fallen into disfavor. It was easier to delete the > > second space to make them all consistent, but I can go with double spaces > > if that's the consensus. > > I did this change over on the FDP in the Handbook, thinking it didn't make > any difference either. > > Then I got deluged with e-mail from people telling me that lots of editors > use the double space as part of their heuristic to determine where sentences > start and end. > > And I turned it back :-) Okey dokey, I can take a hint. :) Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message