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Re: the guide for contributors, or the guide for a contributor?
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: the guide for contributors, or the guide for a contributor? |
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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:54:45 +0100 (CET) |
>> BTW, may I remind to have TWO spaces after a full stop, exclamation
>> mark and question mark at the end of a sentence.
>
> That is the practice I recall from my time typing others doctoral
> thesi. Sadly it is not the norm for html or many modern
> text-setting applications which ruthlessly trim spaces they deem
> superfluous. I have even seen its use flagged as an error in some
> cases.
Note that I'm only talking about text *input* (i.e., the data within
the documentation source files). In general, it has nothing to do how
text is output.
Werner