Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 11:55:21 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: FreeBSD Documentation Project <doc@FreeBSD.ORG>, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Subject: Re: Style Challenge! Message-ID: <199910061555.LAA04859@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991006175934.37031N-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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On 06-Oct-99 Narvi wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > >> On Wed 1999-10-06 (16:39), Narvi wrote: >> > > . Two spaces after '.' >> > > >> > >> > No!!!! I can't see why you should even think about this. >> >> It's much more readable in my opinion, and it does seem to be the >> way >> things are being done currently. >> > > They aren't. About half of the articles are that way. > > The same applies to the handbook. A lot of the periods have only one > space > following them. > > I would vote for removing the double periods, not expanding the > others to > two. Or leaving them alone. Check the archives; we've already had this discussion (is this going to be the async-kernel syscalls debate of -doc?!?) and the final decision was to use two (2) spaces between sentences. >> There are no translations, to my knowledge, that correspond to the >> English articles, as opposed to the books (handbook, faq, &c.). >> > > Handbook and articles should imho follow the same style. Umm.. his point above is about availability of translations, nothing about style. :) --- 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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