On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 09:48:31PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > The two spaces after the full stop were not actually a typo. > > > > What's its purpose? Just recently I added "set nojoinspaces" to my > > .vimrc to not insert two spaces when joining sentences. > > It was explained to me as "English grammar". Two spaces after a full > stop. It's not grammar, but rather a typographical convention dating to monospaced print fonts. It's mostly outdated these days for computer input, as markup languages will put in the "right" amount of space automatically (e.g., one and two spaces after a period are equivalent in both TeX and HTML) and proportional fonts and justification mean your spacing isn't standard, anyway. So as a rule, it seems to be dying out. You can google "two spaces after period" to see the ensuing flamewars. In this particular instance, we consider the pre-markup version something readable (since that is the point of asciidoc), and people will tend to view it in a monospaced fonts. So it at least makes a difference here (and you can then have a flamewar about how it looks). -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
