Sometimes software gains wisdom beyond the intentions of its designers.
As far as I can tell in my copy of BBEdit, both forms
"[Name extension] [is] [adoc]" and
"[Name extension] [is] [.adoc]" yield the same result.
Nevertheless, the recommended version is always preferable, so I will
correct the
Rich,
> The “name extension” does not include the period, so omit that.
[Assume standard rage against file-name extensions has been expressed
here.]
The full-stop is, strictly speaking, the delimiter character between
the file name string and the file name extension string.
In day-to-day use,