On January 25, 2016 11:31:23 AM CST, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: >DJ Lucas wrote: >> 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)? ;-) > >Most of the editors are over 40. As you say, it doesn't make any >difference in the book. However you will notice that I am using two >spaces after a period in this post. But I am also using a monospace >font. > >I do not get overly concerned about spacing in the book with a couple >of >exceptions: > >First, no tab characters. In a file they are evil. If I space >something >for readability, I don't want someone else's tab setting to change the >spacing. > >Second, spacing in the book's verbatim sections, generally <screen> >sections is important, That includes trailing spaces where a space >after >a backslash can invalidate a paste operation. > >Spaces in the text of the book and xml comments are irrelevant. Just >do >what is natural for you. I'll note that the xml is generally a >monospaced >font so you'll see me make two spaces between sentences there. > > -- Bruce > >-- >http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev >FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html >Unsubscribe: See the above information page
I was actually referring to them having been changed unnecessarily, and that we had once did exactly the opposite, which was also not necessary. I want to say that this happened sometime around 2006, but it's a bit fuzzy now. --DJ -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
