From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 6 10:48:18 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 BCBDC15746 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:48:02 -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 NAA18497; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:47:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Message-Id: <199910061747.NAA18497@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: <19991006163329.5296A1D78@bone.nectar.com> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 13:47:58 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Jacques Vidrine Subject: Re: Style Challenge! Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , FreeBSD Documentation Project , Narvi Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 06-Oct-99 Jacques Vidrine wrote: > On 6 October 1999 at 11:55, John Baldwin wrote: >> 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. > > The way God(TM) intended! > > Although I agree with Narvi that pure whitespace/formatting changes > mostly just make it harder for the translators. Don't go around > changing spaces after sentances unless you are already rewriting. If any changes are made, they will just be whitespace and will be noted so in the commit message in a seperate commit so that the translator can ignore them. :) However, I don't see that happening any time soon unless someone is really bored. > Just my $0.02 ! > > Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org --- 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