Hello Markus, On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:57:36 +0100 GMT (07/01/03, 16:57 +0700 GMT), Markus Gloede wrote:
> (Sources: > http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/archives/9602/techwhirl-9602-00470.html I personally love this quote: > Your typing as well as yyour typesetting will benefit from > unlearning this quaint Victorian habit. As a general rule, no more > than a single space is required after a period, colon, or any other > mark of punctuation. I honestly didn't know they had typewriters in Victorian times. Did they? [Other links snipped] I read all of the links. Seems to be an ongoing debate, albeit restricted to English. > As far as the word wrapping of the Bat is concerned: it is just harder > (impossible?) to come up with an algorithm that takes two spaces at > the end of sentences into account. How should this algorithm > distinguish between abbreviations and sentence ending periods (full > stops)? If you can distinguish them (based on a set of internalised rules), so can a computer. Just put these rules into an algorithm. ;-) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. I got into the gene pool while the lifeguard wasn't watching. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.63 Beta/2 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
