From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 31 17:21:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12DEA37B935; Wed, 31 May 2000 17:21:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA19981; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:50:56 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:50:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Stephen McKay Cc: Tim Vanderhoek , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <20000601095056.D16657@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000528135144.B15565@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200005311543.BAA03923@dungeon.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200005311543.BAA03923@dungeon.home> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 1 June 2000 at 1:43:17 +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> IIRC we agreed to disagree in general on points of spelling and >> punctuation which differ from one country to another, even though >> we've agreed to stick to two spaces in the documentation project. I >> think it's inappropriate to single people out because they choose to >> use a different but valid punctuation convention from the one you do. >> >> In case you missed it, in England and Australia the convention is one >> space after a full stop. > > I agree with your view of retaining the home country quirks of individual > writers (it particularly irritates me when documents written in English > are converted to American), and I don't like individuals pointed out > negatively in commit logs. But your facts are in error. > > There is no "one space" convention in Australia. I learned typing in school > (an actually useful skill, no less), and two spaces were mandatory. I can > accept the possibility of regional variation among states, or the more > probable dilution of skill due to increased foreign word processor use, > but the two space rule has not to my knowledge been revoked. My statement was based on observation. If you have any documentary backup, it would interest me. > Um. I think I'll send this rant to -chat. BTW, I'm not currently > subscribed to -chat if you want to take me to task for my evil ways. > I note with some amusement that you included two spaces in the only > place in your message where an inter-sentence gap appeared. What > are your true feelings on this issue? ;-) 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. 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