On Wed, 9 Sept 2026 at 12:36, Andreas Grob <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Pavel > > You've been working really hard on improving the INSTALL file. Thanks for > that – the TortoiseSVN Project Monitor keeps popping up. :-) > > I don't really understand it, but it's probably some historical quirk or a > U.S. thing where you insert two spaces after a period. > > Anyway, the following `grep` command will find several places where > there’s only one space. I can’t guarantee that this `grep` is sufficient, > though. > > grep “[^A-Z0-9]\. [A-Z]” INSTALL | wc > > Best regards > ~ Andreas > Hello Andreas, Thank you! I'm going to make the use of spaces between sentences consistent, but first I'll see which of these places get fixed anyway while I work on the actual content of the document. Whatever isn't fixed as part of other changes will be fixed in a "Fix formatting" commit a bit later. The following command worked for me: grep -n '[^A-Z0-9]\. [A-Z]' INSTALL Note the single quotes. It seems that this particular command isn't sufficient to find all single-space cases within the INSTALL document though. Some sentences begin with a lowercase character (e.g., when the first word is the name of a command or a software package), and that grep/regex command won't catch those. BTW, I think that two spaces between sentences work well for unformatted plain-text content. I believe SVNBook uses two spaces as well, but they are rendered as just one space in HTML. PS I think that you can subscribe to the dev@ mailing list or just send such feedback there without subscribing. I'm personally fine with such discussions being in users@, but AFAIK dev@ is the right place for them. -- With best regards, Pavel Lyalyakin
