Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 18:23:05 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Please review: rc file changes Message-ID: <19990901182305.D55125@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909011637030.86269-100000@freja.webgiro.com>; from Andrzej Bialecki on Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 04:40:13PM %2B0200 References: <199908281738.KAA05273@apollo.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909011637030.86269-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
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On Wed 1999-09-01 (16:40), Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > :I vote for two spaces after the period before the start of a new sentence. > > :Even in the digital age, I've always found that the two spaces make > > > I guess they don't teach manual typewriting classes any more :-) > > It *had* to be two spaces or you got seriously marked down! > > Doesn't apply here in Europe. I vote against putting in too much > stars&stripes dependent stuff... ;-) I was about to mention something about Britain, but I suppose we can't go about calling them European. (: And (at least in my school, which tries its best to appear British and colonial, and more recently my university) here in .za the convention persists. Of course, we could, like me, just never use more than one sentence per paragraph (making sure we use the correct conjunctions), which has always caused havoc in my brief involvement in user education and documentation. I'd also like to advocate the return of the semi-colon; it is underused. (Follow-ups to -chat) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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