On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:28:01PM +0100, Cl??ment B??sch wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:19:57PM +0100, Peter wrote:
> > Yes, I did.
> >
> > I did some more research, and I can't find a source what tells what to
> > do when using a monospaced font in this century.
> > Most typography articles seem to think monospaced fonts died somewhere
> > in the 80's...
> >
> > Also, OpenBSD man pages use double sentence spacing, while Linux
> > manpages use single sentence spacing.
> >
>
> Note that this double spacing might have been triggered automatically by
> an editor. I'm not sure that feature was available in Vi at that period,
> but typically when using the join ('j') feature on "foo bar.\nbla", Vi(m)
> will add two spaces after '.'.
>
> You might want to complain to the Vim developers first, since it's likely
> you will find all sort of double spacing in various other projects because
> of this.
>
> [...]
>
> --
> Cl??ment B.
fmt -s also adds a double space after sentence end. This is not a bug.
-Otto
