From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 2 11:55:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EA1C37B709 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:55:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA15606; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:55:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAARNaWtE; Fri Jun 2 11:55:09 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA25317; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:55:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200006021855.LAA25317@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) To: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net (Brooks Davis) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:55:14 +0000 (GMT) Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000601181133.A28687@orion.ac.hmc.edu> from "Brooks Davis" at Jun 01, 2000 06:11:33 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Second, a rather muddy FAQ from the Chicago Manual of Style. It is at > http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq.html#8 and states: ... > A. All our electronic manuscripts are prepared with a single space > between sentences, since typesetting does not require the extra space, > which is merely a typewriter convention. Electronic manuscripts are intended to be read by electronics, not humans, or we would just call them "manuscripts". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message