Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:14:11 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, FreeBSD Documentation Project <doc@FreeBSD.ORG>, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Subject: Re: Style Challenge! Message-ID: <19991007121411.J11071@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <199910061522.LAA00619@server.baldwin.cx> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991006163638.37031G-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> <199910061522.LAA00619@server.baldwin.cx>
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On [19991006 18:27], John Baldwin (jobaldwi@vt.edu) wrote: >On 06-Oct-99 Narvi wrote: >> On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: >> >>> . Two spaces after '.' >>> >> No!!!! I can't see why you should even think about this. > >That's how formal English specifies sentence endings and is how the >rest of the documentation is. Not taking into account _which_ english in the first place. Some interesting references: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009019898/toc.pdf http://www.kanten.com/styleguide/sgindex.html http://www.tdl.com/~thawley/wstoc.htm HTH, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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