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Date:      Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:58:25 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Documentation Project <doc@FreeBSD.ORG>, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Subject:   Re: Style Challenge!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.991006185730.37031R-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <199910061555.LAA04859@server.baldwin.cx>

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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, John Baldwin wrote:

> > They aren't. About half of the articles are that way.
> > 
> > The same applies to the handbook. A lot of the periods have only one
> > space
> > following them. 
> > 
> > I would vote for removing the double periods, not expanding the
> > others to
> > two. Or leaving them alone.
> 
> Check the archives; we've already had this discussion (is this going to
> be the async-kernel syscalls debate of -doc?!?) and the final decision
> was to use two (2) spaces between sentences.
> 

I doubt it. Rather - who is going to go over all the .sgml files and
correct the instances where there is just one period?

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