From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 2 18:25:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB09037B8AC for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:25:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA30274; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 10:55:26 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 10:55:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: fcash@bigfoot.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <20000603105526.A30249@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 2 June 2000 at 10:55:37 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Freddie Cash" writes: >>>>> I'll certainly try to remember this in my future emails. >>>> I trust you already noticed that English doesn't share the French >>>> habit of putting a space before '?' and '!'? >> This may just be for Canadian French, but in my 13 years of study and >> use, I've never seen a space before a '?' or a '!' or any other >> punctuation mark. > > French typography rules require a narrow space in front of question > and exclamation marks as well as colon and semi-colon, at least when > using proportional-width fonts. I don't know if the same rule applies > to monospace fonts. In my experience, it translates to a single space in each case. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message