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Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1)
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John Wiegley |
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Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1) |
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Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:05:18 -0800 |
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>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> +with the Greek lambda character @samp{λ}. In a TeX buffer, it will
> ^^ ^^^
> Two spaces between sentences, please (we use the US English
> conventions).
I almost hate to say this, but I'm not sure this is the English convention
anymore. A quick Google shows many, many sites that indicate that the modern
convention is now one space, and none that recommend two spaces. I've even
changed to one space in my e-mails, even, after being a long holdout for the
two space rule.
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- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, (continued)
- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/16
- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, Shakthi Kannan, 2015/12/16
- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/16
- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, Shakthi Kannan, 2015/12/16
- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, Shakthi Kannan, 2015/12/21
- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/21
- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, Shakthi Kannan, 2015/12/24
- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/25
- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, Shakthi Kannan, 2015/12/28
- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/29
- Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1),
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- Re: Spaces after periods, David Kastrup, 2015/12/29
- Re: Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1), Nikolai Weibull, 2015/12/29
- Re: Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1), Ingo Lohmar, 2015/12/29
- Re: Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1), Marcin Borkowski, 2015/12/29
- Re: Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1), Nikolai Weibull, 2015/12/29
- Re: Spaces after periods, Random832, 2015/12/30
- Re: Spaces after periods, Nikolai Weibull, 2015/12/30
- Re: Spaces after periods (was: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1), Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/29
- Re: Spaces after periods, John Wiegley, 2015/12/29
- Re: Documenting NEWS features for 25.1, Shakthi Kannan, 2015/12/30