From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 10:36:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postal.linkfast.net (postal.linkfast.net [208.160.105.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE30C37BA84 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:36:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grasshacker@linkfast.net) Received: from leviathan (gh.ws.linkfast.net [208.160.105.41]) by postal.linkfast.net (Postfix) with SMTP id ABFBA9B20 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 12:36:22 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <027801bfcbef$eafc5190$2969a0d0@leviathan> From: "gh" To: Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 12:36:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Ok, so we're agreed. Two spaces at the end of a sentence is what we're > taught in the US, UK, and AU. Any one from another English speaking > country care to share the rules from their freshman keyboarding (typing) > class? Actually, as student of an American school (albeit, not the best) I was taught recently that the two-space convention is antiquated and that in most modern writings a single space is more correct. I have always preferred the two-space convention becuase it not only seems based on research more correct but also more fitting. *runs back to mole hill* Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message