Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:13:13 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt |
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On Monday 2008-04-14 04:33, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote: > >To put it briefly, there are three main conventions about inter-sentence >spacing: > >o English spacing a.k.a. American typewriter spacing: two spaces after full stop; > >o French spacing, i.e. one space;
French spacing has even weirder inter-word/operator spacing, like « this » and that !
>Offhand, it seems that the double spacing convention is being currently used >in a more or less consistent manner throughout Linux docs. It also seems to >me that this can be made a requirement and documented somewhere.
I object. No matter how many (unescaped) spaces you cram in after a sentence stop, HTML engines will happily squash it when displayed [in text/html mode of course], like <p>do as much english spacing. as you want, it's still correctly fixed by the display :-)</p>.
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