From f60281302e23c45e9365932a269b2afec554d9f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:04:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a paragraph about sentence ending spaces. --- Doc-26/documenting/style.rst | 4 ++++ Doc-3k/documenting/style.rst | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc-26/documenting/style.rst b/Doc-26/documenting/style.rst index de1ab2319..5d0ccb7be 100644 --- a/Doc-26/documenting/style.rst +++ b/Doc-26/documenting/style.rst @@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ links may extend beyond that. Make generous use of blank lines where applicable; they help grouping things together. +A sentence-ending period may be followed by one or two spaces; while reST +ignores the second space, it is customarily put in by some users, for example +to aid Emacs' auto-fill mode. + Footnotes are generally discouraged, though they may be used when they are the best way to present specific information. When a footnote reference is added at the end of the sentence, it should follow the sentence-ending punctuation. The diff --git a/Doc-3k/documenting/style.rst b/Doc-3k/documenting/style.rst index de1ab2319..5d0ccb7be 100644 --- a/Doc-3k/documenting/style.rst +++ b/Doc-3k/documenting/style.rst @@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ links may extend beyond that. Make generous use of blank lines where applicable; they help grouping things together. +A sentence-ending period may be followed by one or two spaces; while reST +ignores the second space, it is customarily put in by some users, for example +to aid Emacs' auto-fill mode. + Footnotes are generally discouraged, though they may be used when they are the best way to present specific information. When a footnote reference is added at the end of the sentence, it should follow the sentence-ending punctuation. The