Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 21:11:45 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: American English typography (no longer: make.conf) Message-ID: <19980829211145.A8882@astro.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <35E83F10.1F1B5AF9@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 11:49:04AM -0600 References: <199808290058.RAA20957@apollo.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980828212840.9718F-100000@localhost> <19980829123759.B29560@keltia.freenix.fr> <19980829141614.09323@techunix.technion.ac.il> <35E83F10.1F1B5AF9@softweyr.com>
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On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 11:49:04AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > When using proportional fonts, the correct typography is to use an > n-space between words and an m-space between sentences, IIRC. I > think MS-Word does this automagically; if you type a second space > following a period, it removes it. I hate it when my computer thinks > it is smarter than me! Hm... does it know about every conveivable abbreviation? That is, if "Dr." or "Mr." appears mid-sentence, it should an n-space following it. Likewise for some obscure or made-up abbreviation. LaTeX for example handles the spaces automatically, but since its knowledge of abbreviations is finite, there is a manual override (backslashes, of course). -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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