Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 10:55:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: fcash@bigfoot.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <20000603105526.A30249@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpya4o7986.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost> <xzpya4o7986.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Friday, 2 June 2000 at 10:55:37 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Freddie Cash" <fcash@bigfoot.com> writes: >>>>> I'll certainly try to remember this in my future emails. >>>> I trust you already noticed that English doesn't share the French >>>> habit of putting a space before '?' and '!'? >> This may just be for Canadian French, but in my 13 years of study and >> use, I've never seen a space before a '?' or a '!' or any other >> punctuation mark. > > French typography rules require a narrow space in front of question > and exclamation marks as well as colon and semi-colon, at least when > using proportional-width fonts. I don't know if the same rule applies > to monospace fonts. In my experience, it translates to a single space in each case. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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