Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:12:57 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Joe Walsh <crli@crli.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <20000605121257.A95658@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <s93661fb.019@crli.com>; from crli@crli.com on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 01:15:11PM -0500 References: <s93661fb.019@crli.com>
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On Thu 2000-06-01 (13:15), Joe Walsh wrote: > When I was doing freelance writing, my editor required that all > electronic manuscripts be submitted with 1 space following each > sentence, rather than 2. I believe the typographical layout software > (such as Quark) then figures out how much actual space to put after > the punctuation based on the needs of the line as it will be printed. How does it know whether it's the end of a sentence or an end of an abbreviation? "I don't know Jordan K. Hubbard is the only one you've reported." "I don't know Jordan K. Hubbard is the only one you've reported." Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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