From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 6 8:55:39 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 149231532F for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 08:55:05 -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 LAA04859; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 11:55:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Message-Id: <199910061555.LAA04859@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 11:55:21 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Narvi Subject: Re: Style Challenge! Cc: FreeBSD Documentation Project Cc: FreeBSD Documentation Project , Neil Blakey-Milner Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- 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