On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 01:05:12PM +0100, Pete Ryland wrote: > Since early computers used modified typewriters as input devices, this > practice has been followed to computers too. I, for one, having learnt to > type with a typewriter, normally follow this practice by habit, and I agree > with Hamish that these days the correct solution would be for the display > software to use an em-space or insert the extra space automatically if > displaying with a monospace font. I am in favor of double-spacing after periods because there is no way the computer can know when a full stop (.) character with a space after means the end of a sentence, and when it does. Consider the phenomenon of abbreviations not followed by other punctuation. I think package descriptions should have as much information as possible. Discarding intersentence spacing loses information, as does capitalizing the first letter of the short description when it is not a proper noun, proper adjective, acronym, or other entity which would be rendered capitalized anyway. -- G. Branden Robinson | Convictions are more dangerous Debian GNU/Linux | enemies of truth than lies. branden@debian.org | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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