Hi all, On 01.11.2017 13:11, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > 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!").
Don't follow. What's the difference? :) Typewriters are also machines producing "Ping!" as a warning when you get close to the end of the line. Some decades ago (for entertainment purposes) I've used a fully mechanical typewriter. After that I had a lot more respect for the typists of that age and their finger strength. >> * 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] > It still looks better (in typesetting...), or did anyone complain about the formatting of the VirtualBox user manual (PDF flavor)? > > 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 The goal of the effort was primarily to unify licenses again (as one day the guys from the legal department will ask for a quick update about the licenses in every corner of VirtualBox). Exactly one wording of a particular license, please. For some odd reason the reference versions of the licenses ended having this old-fashioned formatting. Probably because the people who wrote them are... never mind. Just one illustration the problem: To our big grief we found 3+ flavors of the MIT license (some with significantly different wording) which all have been added in the last month or two to files ending up in the Linux guest additions. If one lets this go on for too long it'll turn into a giant nightmare (and the previous incarnation of the script doing these cleanups got so badly out of hand that it wasn't used for years to avoid the required manual re-work afterwards). BTW, I've thought many times about eliminating the copyright year exercise (knowing that it's been entirely useless while VirtualBox existed, see the Berne Convention). It's such a familiar thing so that we'd miss it... Klaus > > > G. > > [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcDQr75GlxI _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
