2009/12/8 Graham Percival :
> I was amused by the recent "punctuation fix" commit: I've always
> considered the CG to be "the guide for contributors", or "the
> contributors's [sic] guide". In modern English, the latter is
> abbreviated (condensed?) into "the contributors' guide".
Easily amused,
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:54:45PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> >> 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
From: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 6:28 PM
I was amused by the recent "punctuation fix" commit: [...]
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
thes
>> 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 t
>> I was amused by the recent "punctuation fix" commit: [...]
>
> 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 m
> I was amused by the recent "punctuation fix" commit: [...]
BTW, may I remind to have TWO spaces after a full stop, exclamation
mark and question mark at the end of a sentence. This is both useful
for certain editors (like Emacs), and it helps the text-mode info
browser to break lines.
IIRC, th
I was amused by the recent "punctuation fix" commit: I've always
considered the CG to be "the guide for contributors", or "the
contributors's [sic] guide". In modern English, the latter is
abbreviated (condensed?) into "the contributors' guide".
I don't mind it being "the guide for a contributor"
