From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 2 10:56:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp09.phx.gblx.net (smtp09.phx.gblx.net [206.165.6.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E8C337BA38 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:56:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp09.phx.gblx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAB63756; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:56:12 -0700 Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp09.phx.gblx.net, id smtpdOVSeMa; Fri Jun 2 10:56:06 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA23308; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:56:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200006021756.KAA23308@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: To: crli@crli.com (Joe Walsh) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:56:03 +0000 (GMT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Joe Walsh" at Jun 01, 2000 01:15:11 PM 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 > When I was doing freelance writing, my editor required that all > electronic manuscripts be submitted with 1 space following each > sentence, rather than 2. I believe the typographical layout > software (such as Quark) then figures out how much actual space > to put after the punctuation based on the needs of the line as > it will be printed. I seem to recall that troff source does not look like the final typeset output either... amazingly, neither does Postscript. It seems to me that, like Grafitti on the Palm Pilot, this is just a case of adapting the human to the deficiencies in the software, rather than the other way around. In other words, you weren't sending your editor text, you were sending your editor "source code". Kind of like FreeBSD's rc file arrangement, or installation procedures, compared to, say, Windows (which is itself less than cognizant of humans, but at least it's more cognizant than FreeBSD seems to be. 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