Date: 01 Jun 2000 20:03:33 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <44g0qxymne.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: grog@lemis.com's message of "2 Jun 2000 07:39:08 %2B0800" References: <8h6s6s$9sb$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>
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grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) writes: > On Thursday, 1 June 2000 at 16:29:25 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > > That convention dates back to the time of hand-set type and has, of late, > > been abandoned. One space is now not only acceptable but preferred in > > business correspondence. > > Do you have any documentation to back this up? Which part? The first sentence was certainly false: hand-set type in English conventionally used spacing that was *between* one and two spaces wide. I'd question the second one, too, on the basis that most business correspondence is now done with methods that attempt to imitate that particular hand-type convention. - Lowell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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