Date: 19 Mar 2002 20:11:04 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1017004489.c7e726@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/36042: [PATCH] There's not a good description of shared builds in the handbook Message-ID: <mfr8mf98vb.8mf@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200203192120.g2JLK3o17280@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200203192120.g2JLK3o17280@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1017004489.c7e726@mired.org> writes: > In <20020319100000.A57951@sumuk.de>, Martin Heinen <martin@sumuk.de> typed: > > > Please put two spaces at the end of sentences. > > I don't write for 19th century schoolmarms. If the target format > requires that ugly anachronism, it should be taken care of by the > style sheet or the formatter. If they can't do that, give me . > and I'll use that. Or let us use -- instead of —. The format of Martin's concern (I'm guessing) is not any proportional- font target like a printed sheet or a browser's page view, but the fixed-pitch raw text, which also has readers. The double space convention was, I suspect, not first required by schoolmarms, but by early readers of fixed-pitch typing. It was good advice for a hundred years and it still is. (Though some would prefer a "newline", in these kinds of raw documents. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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