From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 15:20:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.server.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A13A37B59A for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott.mitchell@mail.com) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([62.253.85.90]) by mta01-svc.server.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000601222002.BLFK381.mta01-svc.server.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:20:02 +0100 Received: (from scott@localhost) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01362; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:20:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott) Message-ID: <20000601231959.48469@localhost> Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:19:59 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: Troy Settle Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) References: <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Troy Settle on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:50:18AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:50:18AM -0400, Troy Settle wrote: > > 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? Two spaces in .nz -- at least that's what I was told in the one brief typing class I ever took. No idea if it was a commonplace thing of just the opinion of one teacher though. Typographically speaking, inter-sentence spacing is supposed to be longer than inter-word spacing. Real typesetting systems (eg. TeX) get this right. I'd assume the two-space rule was an attempt to approximate this in the fixed-width font of a manual typewriter. You'll notice that although I never learned to touch-type the approved way, the two-space thing did take :-) Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message