----- Original Message ----- From: "Just van Rossum" <just@letterror.com> To: <python-dev@python.org> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:15 AM Subject: RE: [Python-Dev] textwrap.py Tim Peters wrote: > (Just, the point isn't to make the period stand out, it's > to make the start of the next sentence stand out): Sure, but there are already *two* things to make that clear: end the previous sentence with a period, start the next with a capital letter. An extra space is overkill. But I guess your point may be that caps usually stand out less in fixed-width fonts, which may be true. > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-June/025141.html That sucks only because the empty line between quote and followup was deleted from the original... > to my eyes single-space sucks with a monospaced font and I agree with > François on this it makes monospaced text look like a giant run-on sentence. Don't know about canadians, but I wouldn't listen to the french : they write spaces *before* punctuation ! --------End Original Message-------- If the energy that has gone into this debate had gone into modifying existing code, by now each different version of the text formatting function being discussed could have an "twospace" keyword argument which could be set to achieve the required behavior and defaulted to the author's preference. I smell the bicycle shed here. regards ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Holden http://www.holdenweb.com/ Python Web Programming http://pydish.holdenweb.com/pwp/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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