Quoting Mats Erik Andersson (mats.andersson@gisladisker.se): > Hello, > > I accept the suggestion for the control file as it stands. > > For the template there are still issues present. I made most of your suggested corrections. Except: > Template: webfsd/web_root > Type: string > -Default: /var/ftp > +Default: /home/ftp Is this something that you would use, as maintainer, as an opportunity to change the package behaviour? > _Description: Document root for webfsd: > Webfsd is a lightweight HTTP server for mostly static content. Its > most obvious use is to provide HTTP access to an anonymous FTP server. > @@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ > _Description: Host name for webfsd: > By default, webfsd uses the machine name as hostname. > . > - You can specify an alternate host name to be used as an external > + You can specify an alternate hostname to be used as an external > alias name (for instance "ftp.example.org") instead of the machine's > fully qualified domain name. > > Consistency in writing 'hostname'. In such case, it should be "host name". And the "by default" sentence should be changed too. > As an experienced TeX and LaTeX user, I am conscious of the notion of > French spacing. The continental Western European and Northern European > languages are using a single space after a full period, whereas the > North American habit, as well as the the Anglosaxon habit, as far as I > understand, is to use double spacing after a full stop. Anyone can This is only an habit and apparently less and less consistently developed, including North America, not to mention UK which apparently never used it. This is indeed mostly an heritage of the typewriters days and monospaced fonts. Indeed, most typographical recommendations now seem to agree on 1 em spacing after full stops....and that a single space should be used in electronic material (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_spacing_at_the_end_of_sentences gives enough references, including USA and Canada ones). The most important reference wrt this is the Chicago Manual of Style, which is commonly accepted as the best reference in USA for typographical conventions. After talking about this many times with northern American users, they apparently use double spacing after full stops in a quite inconsistent way: some do, some don't. After some thinking and even though we standardized on US-like spelling (even though most reviewers are en_GB natives), we decided to standardize to single space after full stops...mostly because this is what requires less changes that might be seen as useless. So, well, from all these references, we seem to have enough backup to sustain our fight against windmil^W double spaces..:-)
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