From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 20:54:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6915437BD47 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 20:54:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com (root@world-f.std.com [199.172.62.5]) by europe.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA04595 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:52:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by world.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA23449; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 20:38:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 20:38:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200006020038.UAA23449@world.std.com> From: Lowell Gilbert To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20000602095356.E22978@wantadilla.lemis.com> (message from Greg Lehey on Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:53:56 +0930) Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) References: <8h6s6s$9sb$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <44g0qxymne.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> <20000602095356.E22978@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:53:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey > The first sentence was certainly false: hand-set type in English > conventionally used spacing that was *between* one and two spaces > wide. I don't see that machine-set type should be any different. In typesetting we're always talking about variable width spacing, and the only real issue is the relationship between interword and intersentence spacing. It seems that in England this relationship has been growing over the years. Sorry; I thought we were still (kinda-sorta) talking about fortune(6) databases. I was claiming that business correspondence was irrelevant to that. I'm not actually disagreeing with you (Greg)... > I'd question the second one, too, on the basis that most business > correspondence is now done with methods that attempt to imitate that > particular hand-type convention. 1½ spaces? Close enough... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message