Hello, ><humor>>If you are the developer that has been modifying _really recently_ the >source files, mainly the license text (example: >>https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/69279/vbox), so as to introduce two (2) >spaces (" ") after a period (".") at the end of a sentence (what was wrong >with one?):
>* You need to get rid of your typewriter and get something more modern, like a >computer (the machine that goes "Ping!"). >* Please let me be one of the first ones to welcome you to the 21st century!!! >;) >From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing): >> With the introduction of the typewriter in the late 19th century, typists >> used two spaces between sentences to mimic the style used by traditional >> typesetters.[5] >While wide sentence spacing was phased out in the printing >> industry in the mid-20th century, the practice continued on typewriters[6] >> and later on computers.[7] ... >From around 1950, single sentence spacing >> became standard in books, magazines and newspapers,[10] and the majority of >> style guides that use a Latin-derived alphabet as >a language base now >> prescribe or recommend the use of a single space after the concluding >> punctuation of a sentence.[11] I *really* need to refrain from posting a typewriter video of Jerry Lewis here [1]. :D PS: such diffs are really annoying in general, because some distro (e.g. yocto), are hard-coding checksums of licenses, to spot licenses variations, so bumping copyright years inside the license text and changing white-spaces makes our life a little worse :p G. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcDQr75GlxI _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
