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just a minor issue (someone might think this is not an issue at all):
Code:
--- /etc/networks 2021-04-15 13:12:38.018986412 +0200
+++ /etc/networks.new 1999-10-07 07:21:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#
# networks This file describes a number of netname-to-address
-# mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly
+# mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly
# used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
The new version has an extra space in front of "It".
Hah, have the double space habit too, despite not ever having a formal typing class I learned somewhere that with typewriters your supposed to double space before the start of a new sentence and started doing that in the 80's and am still trying to break that habit today myself. I guess someone else did too.
Hah, have the double space habit too, despite not ever having a formal typing class I learned somewhere that with typewriters your supposed to double space before the start of a new sentence and started doing that in the 80's and am still trying to break that habit today myself. I guess someone else did too.
I wanted to find a story about a very long commit message of ~20 lines with a single character diff (changing one UTF-8 symbol which looks like white space to actual white space), but my google skills aren't good in this.
That was most probably a correction on my part when I modified netconfig during the rc.inet1 update - I can't see a period and single space without correcting it to proper English (read: British) typing standards
Two spaces after a period is the One True Way. For American (US) English, that is - and that's the only English that matters, right?
False, and I'll fight you for it! The Air Force requires this in their internal writing guide and I HATE IT! It is a remnant from typewriters and has no place in modern usage since (almost) all fonts are using proportional spacing now.
BTW, I corrected your spacing in your post I quoted to the proper single space after a period
That was most probably a correction on my part when I modified netconfig during the rc.inet1 update - I can't see a period and single space without correcting it to proper English (read: British) typing standards
It seems no one teaches "the correct typing" British pupils anymore (I asked).
Quote:
Originally Posted by drumz
Two spaces after a period is the One True Way. For American (US) English, that is - and that's the only English that matters, right?
Apparently, this rule is not just for US English, but also for British English. What about other countries? Germany? Saudi Arabia? China?
Though I did learn on a computer, a Commodore 64, I learned the old typewriter style.
In Russia pupils usually don't learn neither on a typewriter, nor on a computer, teachers demand only cursive handwriting, and after school this leads to Word documents filled with tons of white spaces between words for alignment, and in front of periods, commas, and so on.
In Russia pupils usually don't learn neither on a typewriter, nor on a computer, teachers demand only cursive handwriting, and after school this leads to Word documents filled with tons of white spaces between words for alignment, and in front of periods, commas, and so on.
Same here
Btw we have rules : after period or comma one space, 2 pieces (?) symbols like ?!:; to be surrounded with spaces.
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