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Hiroki Sato
hrs at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 12 21:11:58 UTC 2011
Benedict Reuschling <bcr at FreeBSD.org> wrote
in <4E95CA78.6040503 at FreeBSD.org>:
bc> I propose that once we decide to use just one single space in the
bc> future, that new documents which are added to the doc tree should use
bc> this new convention, but old documents should not be changed. This
bc> reduces the amount of work for translators immensely. PRs that are being
bc> filed with sweeping doc patches to correct this in old documents should
bc> also be closed with a reference to the policy.
bc>
bc> Your thoughts on this?
While I have personally used the double-spacing for a long time, in
my understanding, innovations in publishing made the double-spacing
obsolete and most of English style guides currently opt for the
single-spacing for published work. I do not remember the reason why
this rule is included in our FDP Primer, but I think it is for
readability when editing a source file with monospaced fonts. It is
not for the rendered result obviously as many already pointed out it.
Thus, whether keeping the double-spacing policy or not is a matter of
our preference. We need consistency on that, however. I have no
strong (objective) opinion on sticking to the current policy, but the
fact that we already have a lot of sentences with the double-spacing
are tempting me into not changing it. I think neither converting the
existing documents to single-spaced nor adopting a policy of
"single-spaced for new docs, keeping old documents double-spaced"
sounds a reasonable option to us.
-- Hiroki
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