Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:11:37 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> Cc: Troy Settle <troy@picus.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <20000602091137.S20158@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000601231959.48469@localhost> References: <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIKECDCAAA.troy@picus.com> <20000601231959.48469@localhost>
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On Thursday, 1 June 2000 at 23:19:59 +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:50:18AM -0400, Troy Settle wrote: >> >> Ok, so we're agreed. Two spaces at the end of a sentence is what we're >> taught in the US, UK, and AU. Any one from another English speaking >> country care to share the rules from their freshman keyboarding (typing) >> class? > > Two spaces in .nz -- at least that's what I was told in the one brief typing > class I ever took. No idea if it was a commonplace thing of just the > opinion of one teacher though. > > Typographically speaking, inter-sentence spacing is supposed to be longer > than inter-word spacing. Real typesetting systems (eg. TeX) get this > right. You'll observe that TeX also gives you the choice of spacing after a full stop. \frenchspacing (sic) gives the equivalent of a single space. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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