From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Aug 12 19:46: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB4B37B40C; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 19:46:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id B860F6ACC1; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:16:29 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:16:29 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Punctuation round e.g. (was: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getdiskbyname.3 getpwent.3 src/lib/libc/regex regex.3 src/lib/libc/sys clock_gettime.2 mlock.2 send.2 src/lib/libcam cam_cdbparse.3 src/lib/libdisk libdisk.3 src/lib/libedit editrc.5 src/lib/libm/common_source ...) Message-ID: <20010813121629.R48115@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200108101345.f7ADjaX90494@freefall.freebsd.org> <200108101509.f7AF93d32924@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108101509.f7AF93d32924@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 11:09:03AM -0400 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 On Friday, 10 August 2001 at 11:09:03 -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > >> mdoc(7) police: protect trailing full stops of abbreviations >> with a trailing zero-width space: `e.g.\&'. > > I cannot think of any circumstance where `e.g.' (or `i.e.', for that > matter) is correct when not followed immediately by a comma or other > punctuation, *except* when used at the end of a sentence in which case > the end-of-sentence space is appropriate. This appears to be correct US usage, though I don't have final confirmation. It is explicitly *not* correct Australian usage. From the Commonwealth Style Manual, which is binding for official Australian publications, 6.73 Note also that commas should not be used: (b) after such abbreviations as: i.e. e.g. viz. Given that we have a principle not to change documentation which is correct in some version of English, I think that this commit is valid. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message