From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 6 8:39:32 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 46C111566C for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 08:39:08 -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 SAA06428; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:38:38 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:38:38 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: John Baldwin Cc: FreeBSD Documentation Project , Neil Blakey-Milner Subject: Re: Style Challenge! In-Reply-To: <199910061522.LAA00619@server.baldwin.cx> 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 [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 -- 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