Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 12:09:40 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, FreeBSD Documentation Project <doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Style Challenge! Message-ID: <199910061609.MAA06611@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991006185730.37031R-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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On 06-Oct-99 Narvi wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > They aren't. About half of the articles are that way. >> > >> > The same applies to the handbook. A lot of the periods have only >> > one >> > space >> > following them. >> > >> > I would vote for removing the double periods, not expanding the >> > others to >> > two. Or leaving them alone. >> >> Check the archives; we've already had this discussion (is this going >> to >> be the async-kernel syscalls debate of -doc?!?) and the final >> decision >> was to use two (2) spaces between sentences. >> > > I doubt it. Rather - who is going to go over all the .sgml files and > correct the instances where there is just one period? sed -e 's/. \([^ ]\)/. \1/g' works for me. :) --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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