From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 2 12:30:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13DC437BFF5 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 12:30:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@mips.inka.de) Received: from bigeye.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 12xx9Y-0002Vr-02; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 21:30:44 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.mips.inka.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA52403 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:12:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Date: 2 Jun 2000 20:12:56 +0200 Message-ID: <8h8tf8$1j5a$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000601162717.04482370@localhost> <20000602090744.Q20158@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000601181133.A28687@orion.ac.hmc.edu> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brooks Davis wrote: > Standard Internet e-mail is formatted with monospacing in mind > and thus it would seem that it should adopt the typewrite > convention. Argueably, mdoc and SGML documents should not because > they are intended to be typeset not read directly. mdoc (troff in general?) seems to have the particular convention that the end of a sentence should also be the end of an input line. Some internal typesetting magic will then produce the correct spacing. For nroff on FreeBSD that is two spaces. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a knob equivalent to TeX's \frenchspacing to change this. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message