I know this makes absolutely no difference in the rendered book, and we
have bigger fish to fry, but I've found, in more than a few places while
comparing trunk and systemd, where we have a single line diff that
replaces one space with two following a period (probably colon or
semicolon as well, though I haven't found any instances of these yet).
Given the content, I cannot pass -w to diff.
I also learned to type on a typewriter, and it took me years not to
cringe at the end of every sentence I had typed since I learned that
this has become bad practice for most published works. I still catch
myself adding two spaces on occasion. Both CMOS and OWL agree that one
space is preferred in modern proportional fonts (as opposed to monospace
as in a typewriter), as well as most publishers. I found it a bit funny
that APA (American Psychological Association) is the outlier (which is
apparently used by a much wider audience outside of the social
sciences), which suggests two spaces for manuscript drafts and one for
published works, but interestingly, ASA (American Sociological
Association) says one.
Were these changes the result of some broken automation software, or
somebody my age or older (or somebody who was taught to do this by
somebody my age or older)? ;-) I found this a fun read:
http://www.cultofpedagogy.com/two-spaces-after-period/
--DJ
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