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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt

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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