From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Oct 7 16:50:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD4614E03 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:50:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA11221; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 00:33:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 00:33:19 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: John Baldwin Cc: Narvi , FreeBSD Documentation Project Subject: Re: Two spaces OK Message-ID: <19991008003319.B8995@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <199910061903.PAA27697@server.baldwin.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199910061903.PAA27697@server.baldwin.cx>; from John Baldwin on Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 03:03:50PM -0400 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 03:03:50PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On 06-Oct-99 Narvi wrote: > > > > If there is a decision that there should be two spaces after a > > period, > > trhen it is Ok by me. But all occurencies of just one period should > > then > > be corrected. > > If you don't mind, I'm content to see what Nik says on this one since > he's the arbitrator for doc stuff. I think we need to be a bit more relaxed here guys. 2 spaces is definitely the way to go for all new material. That includes new documents and additions to existing documents. For existing material, if you see that it's using 1 space, and you're feeling particularly bored, then by all means correct it (remembering, of course, that this is a whitespace commit, and should involve no content changes). It's not quite as simple as a sed script though -- you need to watch for , , , and so on, and make sure that they stay untouched. You could always use a sed script, then examine the 'cvs diff' output, and go and put back anything that shouldn't have been touched. Myself, I tend to just use search/replace in Emacs, and bounce on the "repeat-complex-command" key. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message