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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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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...

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