Re: Announce of the upcoming NMU for the nufw package

[Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>]

On 13/12/2006, at 4:45 PM, Christian Perrier wrote:

> > - I believe in English texts there should be two spaces at the end of
> >   a sentence.  The msgids only show that at a few spots.  At the  
> > least
> >   it is inconsistent.
>
> Please report this against the package. I won't touch this package
> anymore (freeze, crappy debconf stuff anyway, probably also a kind of
> saturation on my side...).
>
> I actually don't understand the reason for English using two spaces
> after sentences (something named "full stops" with an abolute lack of
> any logic which probably is out of the scope of my cartesian
> mind). For instance, the D-I team decided against this mostly to avoid
> the inconsistencies you point...which always occur when the "full
> stops" thing is adopted.

Double-spacing after a sentence in English is an old typographical  
convention. It is not necessary if you're not manipulating blocks of  
metal type.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

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