Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:16:07 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.Technion.AC.IL> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Joe Walsh <crli@crli.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.1000605141417.29121A-100000@csd> In-Reply-To: <20000605121257.A95658@mithrandr.moria.org>
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On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Thu 2000-06-01 (13:15), Joe Walsh wrote: > > When I was doing freelance writing, my editor required that all > > electronic manuscripts be submitted with 1 space following each > > sentence, rather than 2. I believe the typographical layout software > > (such as Quark) then figures out how much actual space to put after > > the punctuation based on the needs of the line as it will be printed. > > How does it know whether it's the end of a sentence or an end of an > abbreviation? > > "I don't know Jordan K. Hubbard is the only one you've reported." > > "I don't know Jordan K. Hubbard is the only one you've reported." LaTeX, for example, assumes a period followed by any amount of whitespace and an upper-case letter is an end of a sentence. Thus, your sentence above would have to be written as: "I don't know Jordan K.\ Hubbard is the only one you've reported. (i.e., escaping the space after the period). > > Neil > -- > Neil Blakey-Milner > Sunesi Clinical Systems > nbm@mithrandr.moria.org > > Nadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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