Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 11:45:36 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, FreeBSD Documentation Project <doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Style Challenge! Message-ID: <199910061545.LAA03663@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991006183534.37031O-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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On 06-Oct-99 Narvi wrote: > > [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. That's how it is in source form (the DocBook for example), the style sheets that output text may not follow that convention at the moment however. HTML for instance, compresses multiple spaces into a single space unless you explicitly use . > What about translations into languages that are different? That is up to the translation teams. I have not look at the other language's sources in enough detail to know if they use single space or double space after sentences. Presumably they follow the grammar of their respective language. --- 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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