From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 6 8:12:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B9F1522D for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 08:12:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA05791; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:10:18 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:10:18 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: FreeBSD Documentation Project Subject: Re: Style Challenge! In-Reply-To: <19991006164309.A33390@mithrandr.moria.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Wed 1999-10-06 (16:39), Narvi wrote: > > > . Two spaces after '.' > > > > > > > No!!!! I can't see why you should even think about this. > > It's much more readable in my opinion, and it does seem to be the way > things are being done currently. > They aren't. About half of the articles are that way. The same applies to the handbook. A lot of the periods have only one space following them. I would vote for removing the double periods, not expanding the others to two. Or leaving them alone. [snip] > > > (oh, and does it matter about combining whitespace/markup/content > > > changes in the articles at this point, without any translations?) > > > > The translator will really hate any pure formatting style changes. > > There are no translations, to my knowledge, that correspond to the > English articles, as opposed to the books (handbook, faq, &c.). > Handbook and articles should imho follow the same style. > I'm wondering if we're going to be pedantic about it at the moment > (considering the sheer magnitude of the changes), or if I'll get > away with it this time on a warning *grin*. > > (Basically, I have all the articles done, and I'd like to know > whether the assumptions I've made above are acceptable, and if they > are, about making them the style for such things in the future. > > I especially want to know if getting the style above to DTRT in > Emacs is possible, since I'd rather use a style that's easy to use > in both vim and Emacs.) > > Neil > -- > Neil Blakey-Milner > nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message