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Date:      Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:41:17 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Niclas Zeising <niclas.zeising@gmail.com>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ulrich_Sp=F6rlein?= <uqs@spoerlein.net>, doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall chapter.sgml
Message-ID:  <4E9598FD.2010801@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E95981E.2070303@gmail.com>
References:  <201110101729.p9AHTQg7030262@repoman.freebsd.org> <20111012132723.GH26743@acme.spoerlein.net> <4E9596B2.9000909@FreeBSD.org> <4E95981E.2070303@gmail.com>

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On 10/12/11 9:37 AM, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 10/12/11 15:31, Glen Barber wrote:
>> On 10/12/11 9:27 AM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 17:29:26 +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
>>>> gjb         2011-10-10 17:29:26 UTC
>>>>
>>>>    FreeBSD doc repository
>>>>
>>>>    Modified files:
>>>>      en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall chapter.sgml
>>>>    Log:
>>>>    Use two spaces between end of sentence and beginning of sentence.
>>>>
>>>>    Revision  Changes    Path
>>>>    1.9       +10 -10   
>>>> doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.sgml
>>>
>>> Why oh why? Please stop doing that, it's pointless, annoying and will
>>> get lost with paragraph reformatting eventually and is not significant
>>> in the generated output.
>>>
>>
>> It follows the FDP standards as noted directly before Chapter 10.1 here:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/fdp-primer/writing-style.html
>>
> 
> From what I've come to understand it does not matter for the rendered
> output. 

The only "significant" spaces in SGML/HTML output is "&nbsp;".

> It makes the source (i.e. sgml file) more readable though.

In addition to being "proper" writing style.

-- 
Glen Barber | gjb@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Documentation Project


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