Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 18:44:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: aledm@routers.co.uk (Aled Morris) Cc: abial@webgiro.com, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, mpp@FreeBSD.ORG, chris@calldei.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please review: rc file changes Message-ID: <199909011644.SAA08764@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990901164954.18052A-100000@dinah.alice.net.uk> from Aled Morris at "Sep 1, 1999 4:50:54 pm"
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As Aled Morris wrote ... > On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > >On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > >> :> I've never heard of that. I've always found that two spaces > >> :> after end-of-sentence punctuation makes things easier to read! > >> : > >> :I vote for two spaces after the period before the start of a new sentence. > >> :Even in the digital age, I've always found that the two spaces make > > > >> I guess they don't teach manual typewriting classes any more :-) > >> It *had* to be two spaces or you got seriously marked down! > > > >Doesn't apply here in Europe. I vote against putting in too much > >stars&stripes dependent stuff... ;-) > > > >Andrzej Bialecki > > It does apply in the UK - two spaces is pretty standard. I guess this > isn't an Americanism (for once!) So, it is probably an Anglicism. It is definitely non-standard in the Netherlands. My touch typing lessons dictated 1 space. W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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