From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 6 8:46:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F9D815709 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 08:45:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA03663; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 11:45:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Message-Id: <199910061545.LAA03663@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 11:45:36 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Narvi Subject: Re: Style Challenge! Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , FreeBSD Documentation Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- 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