Date: 2 Jun 2000 20:12:56 +0200 From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <8h8tf8$1j5a$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de> References: <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIKECDCAAA.troy@picus.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000601162717.04482370@localhost> <20000602090744.Q20158@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000601181133.A28687@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
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Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote: > Standard Internet e-mail is formatted with monospacing in mind > and thus it would seem that it should adopt the typewrite > convention. Argueably, mdoc and SGML documents should not because > they are intended to be typeset not read directly. mdoc (troff in general?) seems to have the particular convention that the end of a sentence should also be the end of an input line. Some internal typesetting magic will then produce the correct spacing. For nroff on FreeBSD that is two spaces. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a knob equivalent to TeX's \frenchspacing to change this. -- 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
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