From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 17:26: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from durango.picus.com (durango.picus.com [209.100.20.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB3A537BA2C for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:26:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from troy@picus.com) Received: from abyss [209.100.22.250] by durango.picus.com (SMTPD32-5.05) id AEC0390015C; Thu, 01 Jun 2000 20:24:32 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" To: Subject: RE: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 20:25:23 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 In-reply-to: <44g0qxymne.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ** From: Lowell Gilbert ** grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) writes: ** ** > On Thursday, 1 June 2000 at 16:29:25 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: ** ** > > That convention dates back to the time of hand-set type ** and has, of late, ** > > been abandoned. One space is now not only acceptable but ** preferred in ** > > business correspondence. ** > ** > Do you have any documentation to back this up? ** ** Which part? The first sentence was certainly false: hand-set type in ** English conventionally used spacing that was *between* one and two ** spaces wide. I'd question the second one, too, on the basis that most ** business correspondence is now done with methods that attempt to ** imitate that particular hand-type convention. ** Thanks for the reminder. I do remember having used several antique typewriters that had a "half-space" key. It was for exactly this purpose, though seldom used because most typewriters lacked this feature. It was nice for getting text centered correctly though. -Troy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message