From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Oct 7 4:12: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ED2B15134 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 04:11:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.196.184]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAB304B; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:11:44 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA18285; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:14:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:14:11 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: John Baldwin Cc: Narvi , FreeBSD Documentation Project , Neil Blakey-Milner Subject: Re: Style Challenge! Message-ID: <19991007121411.J11071@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <199910061522.LAA00619@server.baldwin.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <199910061522.LAA00619@server.baldwin.cx> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On [19991006 18:27], John Baldwin (jobaldwi@vt.edu) wrote: >On 06-Oct-99 Narvi wrote: >> On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: >> >>> . Two spaces after '.' >>> >> No!!!! I can't see why you should even think about this. > >That's how formal English specifies sentence endings and is how the >rest of the documentation is. Not taking into account _which_ english in the first place. Some interesting references: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009019898/toc.pdf http://www.kanten.com/styleguide/sgindex.html http://www.tdl.com/~thawley/wstoc.htm HTH, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message