Steve Greenland wrote: > While technically valid, I don't like his much, for a couple of > reasons: > > 1. I suspect it will be very hard to get this consistently used > in Debian descriptions, as there are a lot of people who do not > naturally use the 'period-two-spaces' convention. (I suspect it is > entirely determined by how much typing one did on real typewriters, > pre-wordprocessor.) > > 2. IMO, the naive rendering of ".<sp><sp>" looks fairly dreadful in > variable-width fonts -- they'd need to strip out the extra space and do > it correctly. (Actually, IMO, it looks fairly dreadful in fixed width > fonts, too).
Don't forget: 3. It can easily fails if a sentence happens to end at the end of a line. Like the previous sentence, which only a computer programmer would think to add two spaces at the end of. :-) -- see shy jo
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