From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: "Julian Graham" <joolean@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: thread cancellation, take 2
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:23:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87odeh4ia5.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2bc5f8210710291520k385d1021l9610292ba39588b0@mail.gmail.com> (Julian Graham's message of "Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:20:22 -0400")
"Julian Graham" <joolean@gmail.com> writes:
> Re: @var, @code, of course, my mistake.
>
> As for the spaces thing, both my parents are copy editors and I was
> raised to use the double space. But my girlfriend is also a copy
> editor (for newer, fancier magazines) and she assures me that the
> double space is a thing of the past.
But that could mean many things. For example, TeX doesn't care how
many spaces you type in the source file; it will typeset the correct
end-of-sentence-size space anyway.
My understanding is that the two space convention is for fixed-width
computer presentation, such as in Info. Many people seem to think
that two spaces look better in that context.
(Personally I always notice how browser-rendered text looks wrong in
this respect - because HTML (like TeX) doesn't care how many spaces
there are in the source, but the browsers (unlike TeX) don't leave a
little extra width at the end of a sentence.)
Regards,
Neil
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-20 14:30 thread cancellation, take 2 Julian Graham
2007-09-20 15:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-09-20 15:36 ` Julian Graham
2007-09-23 5:16 ` Julian Graham
2007-09-23 10:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-09-23 18:39 ` Julian Graham
2007-09-24 11:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-09-24 15:39 ` Julian Graham
2007-09-24 20:17 ` Julian Graham
2007-09-26 4:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-09-27 2:39 ` Julian Graham
2007-10-18 0:41 ` Julian Graham
2007-10-20 11:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-10-20 13:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-10-20 22:19 ` Julian Graham
2007-10-21 13:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-10-21 13:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-10-23 14:16 ` Julian Graham
2007-10-24 2:35 ` Julian Graham
2007-10-29 22:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-10-29 22:20 ` Julian Graham
2007-10-29 23:23 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2007-10-30 9:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
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