Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:26:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: Message-ID: <200006060026.RAA01410@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000602165302.04939e50@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Jun 02, 2000 05:30:48 PM
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> At 11:58 AM 6/2/2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > >Please cite an English textbook on this, > > See > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0767903722/ref=ed_oe_p/002-9186126-2223249 "WiReD" magazine is not very authoritative. > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201339854/ref=sim_books/002-9186126-2223249 I would be more likely to accept this as a source, if it in fact has anything to say on the subject. Realize, however, that AP is likely to treat text as source code for typesetting, as opposed to an end in itself. Going to http://wire.ap.org/ confirms that their wire format uses single spaces following periods. > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226103897/wedwordcom/002-9186126-2223249 My copy of the Chicago Manual of Style shows two spaces following periods. > >rather than some stupid > >MBA book, and I'll refrain from citing MBA books on how code > >should be written. > > I'd think that an "MBA book," as you call it, is much more likely > to be an authority on business correspondence than on programming. My problem with taking an MBA book to be authoritative is that such a book is unlikely to be authoritative on written English. I'd be more willing to accept the authority of an English professor on English. MBA professors will undoubtedly know more about business that English professors, but we are not disucssing business, we are discussing English. > Also, here are some links to style guides around the Web, all > of which say that it is desirable to use one space after a period > that ends a sentence. (These are only the results of a brief search; > I'm sure there are many more.) > > http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_spacing.htm Psychologists, not English professors. ... Altavista claims to have found 492 documents contradicting the documents you list. > http://www.the-efa.org/news/gramglean.html#onespace This one actually supports two spaces. It calls the use of one space "a case of collective cultural amnesia". 8-). http://www.mla.org/style/faq_5.htm http://www.richmond.edu/~writing/wweb/mladocu.html http://www.english.udel.edu/mkvande/Paper_Requirements.html ... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200006060026.RAA01410>