From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 5 4:15:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cs.Technion.AC.IL (csa.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C3137B758 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 04:15:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nadav@cs.technion.ac.il) Received: from csd.cs.technion.ac.il (csd.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.8]) by cs.Technion.AC.IL (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA10773; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:16:08 +0300 (IDT) Received: from localhost (nadav@localhost) by csd.cs.technion.ac.il (8.9.3/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA00945; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:16:08 +0300 (IDT) X-Authentication-Warning: csd.cs.technion.ac.il: nadav owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:16:07 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Joe Walsh , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) In-Reply-To: <20000605121257.A95658@mithrandr.moria.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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