Re: description writing guide
Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> writes:
> However, this is all on *output* (display, whatever). The input text
> should have just a single space. The text has to be reformatted to fit
> the screen (display area) anyway (even on a terminal), and it's the job
> of the reformatter/text renderer/whatever to get it "right".
It is not possible for an automated renderer to figure out where
sentence boundaries are without some kind of help, and a mere period
is not sufficient help. So, a good convention to establish might be
that the string ". " indicates the end of a sentence, and ". " does
not.
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