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Date:      Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:32:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Big Patch Commit
Message-ID:  <20030918023032.Q4232@znfgre.qbhto.arg>
In-Reply-To: <20030915074941.GA393@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20030914235034.GA19994@perrin.nxad.com> <20030915074941.GA393@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:

> On 2003.09.14 16:50:34 -0700, Hiten Pandya wrote:
>
> > I am planning to commit the patch in PR docs/55226.
> > If anyone has objections towards, speak now, or forever hold
> > your peace. :-)
>
> Not really objections, but you need to have a look at each change.  At
> least one is IMO wrong:
>
> --- advanced-networking/chapter.sgml    21 Jul 2003 13:35:50 -0000      1.234
> +++ advanced-networking/chapter.sgml    2 Aug 2003 13:26:43 -0000
> @@ -2798,7 +2798,7 @@
>             group of machines it represents.  For example, the Art
> -           department at Acme Inc. might be in the
> +           department at Acme Inc.  might be in the
>             <quote>acme-art</quote> NIS domain.  For this example,

We want double spaces after a . used as a full stop (at the end of a
sentence). When used as punctuation to indicate the end of an
abbreviation, the double space is not necessary, or desirable.

At least this is how I understand it. :)

Doug

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