From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 14:27:12 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 63D5137B6C5 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 14:27:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@mips.inka.de) Received: from bigeye.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 12xcUY-0004tE-04; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:27:02 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.mips.inka.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA06812 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:23:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Date: 1 Jun 2000 23:23:54 +0200 Message-ID: <8h6k9a$6ke$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de> References: <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> <20000601141807.A40162@keltia.freenix.fr> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ollivier Robert wrote: > Speaking as a non native english speaker, I must say that I learned in the > FreeBSD mailing-lists that two spaces were required at the end of a > sentence... The block fill functions of some editors as well as fmt(1) give it away, too. > I'll certainly try to remember this in my future emails. I trust you already noticed that English doesn't share the French habit of putting a space before '?' and '!'? -- 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