From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 28 3:22: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EAE114D63 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 03:22:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA79649; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 11:12:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 11:12:55 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Doug Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please review: rc file changes Message-ID: <19990828111254.A79158@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <199908271705.LAA24405@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug on Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:23:06AM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:23:06AM -0700, Doug wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > > Sentences are supposed to have two spaces before you start the next > > sentence. > > Well, that was definitely the old typographical convention, but in > the digital age it's fallen into disfavor. It was easier to delete the > second space to make them all consistent, but I can go with double spaces > if that's the consensus. I did this change over on the FDP in the Handbook, thinking it didn't make any difference either. Then I got deluged with e-mail from people telling me that lots of editors use the double space as part of their heuristic to determine where sentences start and end. And I turned it back :-) N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message