Re: Backporting doc changes to stable/2.10 [was: Re: Docs check-translation]

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Graham Percival escreveu:
> Jean-Charles wrote:
>> All the documents that I have read about typography and "good use"
>> show examples introduced with a colon (:) throughout their content. 
>> So I think it is normal French typography to do like this.
> 
> To be honest, I'm not certain where the no-colon rule came from.  I just
> checked a few technical books lying around (I'm in a lab) and they
> sometimes used colons.
> 
> Not that I consider blogs to be authoritative, but this article makes
> sense to me:
> http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2005/12/23/mind-your-colons/

FWIW, I learned the 'avoid colons' rule both from an editor at GNU press
and the famous mathematician Paul Halmos. 

Rules may be different in other languages, of course.

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