Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 00:00:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: mckay@thehub.com.au (Stephen McKay), hoek@FreeBSD.ORG (Tim Vanderhoek), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <200006020000.RAA01967@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000601095056.D16657@wantadilla.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Jun 01, 2000 09:50:56 AM
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> I didn't say I was conventional :-) I use the two space convention > because I find it more convenient. But most text written in Australia > or England has a single space after the full stop. Period. I looked at my science fiction books published in England. They are all two spaces following the period, even the most recent ones. Just like I was taught in grammer school. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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