From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 21:04:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] doc: fix small issues in SubmittingPatches
Message-ID: <C89BA7B590AA460BB298258BA85E8619@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kYg9jQ3kaKnNEJCH9fde=ar1KPiUr7=X+TguNc0Twqdzg@mail.gmail.com>

From: "Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>
>> Further, remove duplicated space character.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing
> seems like a globally controversial thing. (I assumed
> it was some sort of local dialect before researching
> it properly)
>
> I personally do not mind one way or another regarding
> (double) spaces after a period, but I would think we'd
> strive for consistency throughout the project.
>

The use of double spaces was a taught typing technique as recently as the 
early-mid 1980s when my wife did a UK university postgraduate secretarial 
course. This was just before PC word processing took off. It takes a long 
while for the old ways to die off!
--
Philip