Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 17:30:48 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000602165302.04939e50@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200006021758.KAA23399@usr09.primenet.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000601162717.04482370@localhost>
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At 11:58 AM 6/2/2000, Terry Lambert wrote: >Please cite an English textbook on this, See http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0767903722/ref=ed_oe_p/002-9186126-2223249 .... Also http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201339854/ref=sim_books/002-9186126-2223249 and http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226103897/wedwordcom/002-9186126-2223249 >rather than some stupid >MBA book, and I'll refrain from citing MBA books on how code >should be written. I'd think that an "MBA book," as you call it, is much more likely to be an authority on business correspondence than on programming. Also, here are some links to style guides around the Web, all of which say that it is desirable to use one space after a period that ends a sentence. (These are only the results of a brief search; I'm sure there are many more.) http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_spacing.htm http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/wsr/csc120/wp1spa97.htm http://www.stidolph.com/SEN/style.html http://www.hccs.cc.tx.us/system/public_info/gg-dtp.htm http://itc.dixie.edu/reber/mlastyle/typing.htm http://www.responsetv.com/styleguide.html http://www.marsdenshs.qld.edu.au/cameos/business/stylemanual/06spaces.html http://scrc.cit.nih.gov/dtp/tut/type/index.html http://www.apnet.com/narwhal/marguide.htm http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/training/proofing/proofing.html http://www.colorado.edu/Publications/styleguide/computers.html http://www.ptloma.edu/communicationsoffice/PL_style_guide.htm http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/~tripp/punc.html http://www.waldenu.edu/acad-rsrcs/writing-center/spots/spot6.html http://webword.com/reports/period.html http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sppathau/acqnotes.html http://www.science.smith.edu/geology/gmr/instructions/Format_instructions.html http://www.journalofromanarch.com/edit.html http://www.cidi.oas.org/edu40anivGuide.htm http://www.the-efa.org/news/gramglean.html#onespace --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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