From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3DB291382C5 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2018 08:28:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4CFE3E0B7D; Tue, 3 Apr 2018 08:28:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D4B29E0B5D for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2018 08:28:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1f3HJ2-0005u7-P7 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2018 08:28:40 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 09:28:40 +0100 Message-ID: <2703859.3q1hbuC5Sf@peak> In-Reply-To: <20180402205030.GZ1974@ca.inter.net> References: <7d2febad-b137-4186-9455-130be72fb0b1@gmail.com> <91d584c2-9197-9029-992f-51086473d0ac@gmail.com> <20180402205030.GZ1974@ca.inter.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: 155c4642-5c7f-48a9-8e21-e3d002f58a39 X-Archives-Hash: 1fc7a929daed6c3106669323f57a9136 On Monday, 2 April 2018 21:50:30 BST Philip Webb wrote: > 180402 Dale wrote: > > After each period at the end of a sentence, I put in two spaces, not one. > > Something I was taught years ago somewhere and still do. > > I only put one after a comma tho. > > That is correct professional secretarial style, which I always follow too. Correct? In what sense? I've only encountered the practice in American writers (and now Canadian?), so it seems to be a regional preference. > > Could that be triggering something ? > > I'm using Seamonkey set to send plain text to anything Gentoo related. > > IIRC HTML defaults to collapse double spaces to single ; > word-processors do so too, if you don't tell them not to. KMail also has an option to collapse double spaces to one. -- Regards, Peter.