Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:19:59 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Troy Settle <troy@picus.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <20000601231959.48469@localhost> In-Reply-To: <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIKECDCAAA.troy@picus.com>; from Troy Settle on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:50:18AM -0400 References: <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIKECDCAAA.troy@picus.com>
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On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:50:18AM -0400, Troy Settle wrote: > > Ok, so we're agreed. Two spaces at the end of a sentence is what we're > taught in the US, UK, and AU. Any one from another English speaking > country care to share the rules from their freshman keyboarding (typing) > class? Two spaces in .nz -- at least that's what I was told in the one brief typing class I ever took. No idea if it was a commonplace thing of just the opinion of one teacher though. Typographically speaking, inter-sentence spacing is supposed to be longer than inter-word spacing. Real typesetting systems (eg. TeX) get this right. I'd assume the two-space rule was an attempt to approximate this in the fixed-width font of a manual typewriter. You'll notice that although I never learned to touch-type the approved way, the two-space thing did take :-) Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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