Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:55:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net (Brooks Davis) Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <200006021855.LAA25317@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000601181133.A28687@orion.ac.hmc.edu> from "Brooks Davis" at Jun 01, 2000 06:11:33 PM
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> Second, a rather muddy FAQ from the Chicago Manual of Style. It is at > http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq.html#8 and states: ... > A. All our electronic manuscripts are prepared with a single space > between sentences, since typesetting does not require the extra space, > which is merely a typewriter convention. Electronic manuscripts are intended to be read by electronics, not humans, or we would just call them "manuscripts". 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
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