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Date:      Thu, 07 Oct 1999 09:19:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, FreeBSD Documentation Project <doc@FreeBSD.ORG>, Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
Subject:   Re: Style Challenge!
Message-ID:  <199910071319.JAA31262@server.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <19991007121411.J11071@daemon.ninth-circle.org>

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On 07-Oct-99 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> On [19991006 18:27], John Baldwin (jobaldwi@vt.edu) wrote:
>>On 06-Oct-99 Narvi wrote:
>>> On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
>>> 
>>>> . Two spaces after '.'
>>>> 
>>> No!!!! I can't see why you should even think about this.
>>
>>That's how formal English specifies sentence endings and is how the
>>rest of the documentation is.
> 
> Not taking into account _which_ english in the first place.

> ls -l ~work/doc
total 5
drwxr-xr-x  2 jhb  jhb  512 Sep 29 15:13 CVS
-rw-r--r--  1 jhb  jhb  441 Sep  8 03:39 Makefile
drwxr-xr-x  7 jhb  jhb  512 Sep 29 15:13 en_US.ISO_8859-1
drwxr-xr-x  5 jhb  jhb  512 Sep 29 15:13 ru_RU.KOI8-R
drwxr-xr-x  5 jhb  jhb  512 Sep 29 15:13 share

For now we are using US English for the documentation. :)

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