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Subject:RE: Spaces after full stop From:"Gordon McLean" <Gordon -dot- McLean -at- GrahamTechnology -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 9 Oct 2007 08:23:14 +0100
On a (somewhat) related note.
Which is tastier? Apples or Oranges?
Which colour is nicer? Blue or Red?
Etc etc.
I'm sometimes glad of the time difference as, when I saw my TechWR folder
full of these emails, my first reaction was to cherry pick a random few,
then skip to the last one and delete them all.
Now, how do YOU punctuate a bulleted list? ;-)
Gordon
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To: Lauren; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Spaces after full stop
The continuing debate demonstrates to me that there is no "true rule,"
merely prevailing convention, which means that regardless of which I prefer,
there will inevitably be some client or customer with a checkbook somewhere
who prefers it the other way. Therefore, since the "obsolete" double space
that I was raised on and still default to is the easiest to change to its
opposite, I choose that as my preference.
What's the point of retraining yourself when you can do it any way you
prefer and have it either way with the click of a button?
Gene Kim-Eng
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