On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:23:06AM -0700, Doug wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > > Sentences are supposed to have two spaces before you start the next > > sentence. > > Well, that was definitely the old typographical convention, but in > the digital age it's fallen into disfavor. It was easier to delete the > second space to make them all consistent, but I can go with double spaces > if that's the consensus.
I did this change over on the FDP in the Handbook, thinking it didn't make any difference either. Then I got deluged with e-mail from people telling me that lots of editors use the double space as part of their heuristic to determine where sentences start and end. And I turned it back :-) N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <37514...@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message