cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall chapter.sgml

[Ulrich Spörlein]

On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 09:41:17 -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
> On 10/12/11 9:37 AM, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> > On 10/12/11 15:31, Glen Barber wrote:
> >> On 10/12/11 9:27 AM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 17:29:26 +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
> >>>> gjb         2011-10-10 17:29:26 UTC
> >>>>
> >>>>    FreeBSD doc repository
> >>>>
> >>>>    Modified files:
> >>>>      en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall chapter.sgml
> >>>>    Log:
> >>>>    Use two spaces between end of sentence and beginning of sentence.
> >>>>
> >>>>    Revision  Changes    Path
> >>>>    1.9       +10 -10   
> >>>> doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.sgml
> >>>
> >>> Why oh why? Please stop doing that, it's pointless, annoying and will
> >>> get lost with paragraph reformatting eventually and is not significant
> >>> in the generated output.
> >>>
> >>
> >> It follows the FDP standards as noted directly before Chapter 10.1 here:
> >>
> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/fdp-primer/writing-style.html
> >>
> > 
> > From what I've come to understand it does not matter for the rendered
> > output. 
> 
> The only "significant" spaces in SGML/HTML output is " ".
> 
> > It makes the source (i.e. sgml file) more readable though.
> 
> In addition to being "proper" writing style.

Yes, the 20th century called and wants you to return your typewriter.

Please stop this double-spaced end of sentence madness.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/space_invaders.html

Cheers,
Uli