Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 12:44:46 -0700 From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please review: rc file changes Message-ID: <37C83C2E.904BC997@gorean.org> References: <199908271705.LAA24405@mt.sri.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908271119580.72558-100000@dt010nb9.san.rr.com> <19990828111254.A79158@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:23:06AM -0700, Doug wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > > > Sentences are supposed to have two spaces before you start the next > > > sentence. > > > > Well, that was definitely the old typographical convention, but in > > the digital age it's fallen into disfavor. It was easier to delete the > > second space to make them all consistent, but I can go with double spaces > > if that's the consensus. > > I did this change over on the FDP in the Handbook, thinking it didn't make > any difference either. > > Then I got deluged with e-mail from people telling me that lots of editors > use the double space as part of their heuristic to determine where sentences > start and end. > > And I turned it back :-) Okey dokey, I can take a hint. :) Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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