On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 06:43:20PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 01/08/14 17:46, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> > I still do not get what point you are trying to make. Could you please > > provide evidence? Because really, this is the usage I have seen in > > projects out there all around, including the majority of the linux > > kernel. > I am used to seeing e.g. and i.e. always followed by a comma when they are > used to begin a sentence. However, I just checked and some online style > guides say to omit the comma and some say to use it, and we (Linux kernel) > don't really have a writing style guide to look at. I think that makes it > up to the maintainer to decide what is acceptable. More generally they're just abbreviations for the latin for for example and that is so (to a reasonable approximation) get used in the same way.
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