From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 17: 0:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F012737BA02; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:00:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA10301; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:59:55 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAADgaGeu; Thu Jun 1 16:59:50 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA01967; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:00:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200006020000.RAA01967@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 00:00:03 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mckay@thehub.com.au (Stephen McKay), hoek@FreeBSD.ORG (Tim Vanderhoek), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000601095056.D16657@wantadilla.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Jun 01, 2000 09:50:56 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. I looked at my science fiction books published in England. They are all two spaces following the period, even the most recent ones. Just like I was taught in grammer school. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message