Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:13:47 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, FreeBSD Documentation Project <doc@FreeBSD.ORG>, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Subject: Re: Style Challenge! Message-ID: <19991006151346.M20768@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199910061607.MAA06336@server.baldwin.cx> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991006184815.37031Q-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> <199910061607.MAA06336@server.baldwin.cx>
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On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 12:07:26PM -0400, a little birdie told me that John Baldwin remarked > > easier to read. Some of us are anal about grammar as well. Not to > mention that most of us are in the habit of using two spaces after > sentences, so keeping it at two spaces makes our lives easier. :) For > example, look at my e-mail. I use two spaces between sentences all > over the place because that is the grammar that has been ingrained into > me and several other doc writers since we were in grade school. Indeed. I once tried using single spaces at the end of a sentence. My fingers rebelled. Looking around: NSI Invoice: double spaces after period. Daemon book: double spaces (note that on printed books it's often harder to tell as the text is full justified, so spaces aren't a constant size, but I don't recall seeing any recently that aren't doubled.) It should also be noted that it hasn't exactly been aeons since I was in grade school, so it's not like I'm just a remnant of a prior age. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ FutureSouth Communications | ISPHelp ISP Consulting "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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