From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Mar 19 20:11:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B6A737B400 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:11:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9C0BCDD; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:11:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA25733; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:11:31 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g2K4B5Y41315; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:11:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/36042: [PATCH] There's not a good description of shared builds in the handbook References: <200203192120.g2JLK3o17280@freefall.freebsd.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 19 Mar 2002 20:11:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: <200203192120.g2JLK3o17280@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Meyer writes: > In <20020319100000.A57951@sumuk.de>, Martin Heinen typed: > > > Please put two spaces at the end of sentences. > > I don't write for 19th century schoolmarms. If the target format > requires that ugly anachronism, it should be taken care of by the > style sheet or the formatter. If they can't do that, give me . > and I'll use that. Or let us use -- instead of —. The format of Martin's concern (I'm guessing) is not any proportional- font target like a printed sheet or a browser's page view, but the fixed-pitch raw text, which also has readers. The double space convention was, I suspect, not first required by schoolmarms, but by early readers of fixed-pitch typing. It was good advice for a hundred years and it still is. (Though some would prefer a "newline", in these kinds of raw documents. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message