From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 6 9: 9:52 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 AA2671512F for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 09:09:33 -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 MAA06611; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:09:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Message-Id: <199910061609.MAA06611@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 12:09:40 -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: > > > On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > 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. >> > > I doubt it. Rather - who is going to go over all the .sgml files and > correct the instances where there is just one period? sed -e 's/. \([^ ]\)/. \1/g' works for me. :) --- 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