From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Aug 10 8: 9: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F2EE37B406; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 08:09:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7AF93d32924; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:09:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:09:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200108101509.f7AF93d32924@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Ruslan Ermilov 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 ... In-Reply-To: <200108101345.f7ADjaX90494@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200108101345.f7ADjaX90494@freefall.freebsd.org> 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 < 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 message