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Re: description writing guide



On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:49:12PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> 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. 

I was about to say that, but then I realized that it doesn't help if
a period is at the end of a line.  I use two spaces between sentences
myself (old emacs habit), but it irks me that that's not a complete
solution.

Richard Braakman



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