From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 2 10: 4: 7 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 B11B037B529 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:03:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.89.70]) by mta01-svc.server.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000602170355.EZXD381.mta01-svc.server.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:03:55 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA00828; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:03:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:03:49 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Ollivier Robert Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <20000602180349.A232@parish> References: <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> <20000601141807.A40162@keltia.freenix.fr> <8h6k9a$6ke$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de> <20000602022954.A44300@keltia.freenix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000602022954.A44300@keltia.freenix.fr>; from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr on Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 02:29:54AM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 02:29:54AM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Christian Weisgerber: > > The block fill functions of some editors as well as fmt(1) give it > > away, too. > > Xemacs seems to respect the two spaces fortunately. > Unless you add this to ~/.emacs: ;;Fill paragraphs with a single space after each full stop (setq sentence-end "[.?!][]\"')}]*\\($\\|[ \t]\\)[ \t\n]*") (setq sentence-end-double-space nil) > > I trust you already noticed that English doesn't share the French > > habit of putting a space before '?' and '!'? > > Yes. Don't like it though :-) > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr > FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 5.0-CURRENT #79: Sun May 28 01:27:10 CEST 2000 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message