Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:09:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: 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: <200108101509.f7AF93d32924@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200108101345.f7ADjaX90494@freefall.freebsd.org>
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<<On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 06:45:36 -0700 (PDT), Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> 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. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the messagehelp
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