Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:38:38 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Documentation Project <doc@FreeBSD.ORG>, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Subject: Re: Style Challenge! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991006183534.37031O-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199910061522.LAA00619@server.baldwin.cx>
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[removed the second redundant cc: to -doc] On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, John Baldwin wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> . Two spaces after '.' > >> > > No!!!! I can't see why you should even think about this. > > That's how formal English specifies sentence endings and is how the > rest of the documentation is. > Really? Most of printed books definately don't follow that rule then. Or online texts/documents for that matter. What about translations into languages that are different? [snip] > >> Any comments? > >> > >> (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. > > Yes, but there aren't currently any translated versions so this doesn't > apply. :) Still, it's best to go ahead and make it a habit and always > follow it for all -doc commits, IMO. > Lot's of corrections due to happen if we decide to standardize either way... > --- > > John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/ > PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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