From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 16:51:59 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 8437B37B9FE for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:51:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA22947; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:20:32 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:20:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: gh Cc: Troy Settle , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <20000602092032.U20158@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <002b01bfcc05$f5ae8020$2969a0d0@leviathan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <002b01bfcc05$f5ae8020$2969a0d0@leviathan> 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 15:14:08 -0500, gh wrote: >> >> Ok... >> >> I was just summarizing what others were saying and tossing in my own .02. >> >> Greg said one space. Someone else from AU said 2. >> >> Yet another person indicated that his British friends said 2. >> >> I know 2 from my own typing class back in '84. > > I believe (not to justify it) that the main argument is that manual > typesetting and typewriting are antiquated and as such using a > two-space convention is no longer necessary. If you look at professionally typeset documents such as books and newspapers, you'll notice more space at the end of sentences than between individual words in US American texts. In French and German texts there is generally less space, and there is no more space at the end of sentences than between individual words. In British texts I've seen both cases, but there's reason to believe that more traditional texts use less space at the end of sentences. I had always thought that the typing rules attempted to follow this practice. 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