[FFML] Question about how to keep the text as is after submitted
d rat
duneratfics at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 13:12:11 PDT 2008
My own 2cr here.
The standard in question, KB, is not the ISO standard, the
common-person's-mail-program standard, or anycrap MS managed to
produce. It is the FFML standard, and that's all anyone needs to
worry about.
As for the ellipsis, someone needs to check their style guides. 1
space always follows an ellipsis in the middle of a sentence, just as
2 spaces follow an ellipsis that ends a sentence.
This is per APA, MLA, Chicago, and most importantly, Turabian, as well
as most of the other major style-guides i am aware of.
Don't base your style on journalists, for whom space is at a premium.
They commonly introduce and support poor grammar and writing as a
method to prevent whitespace, rather than concentrating on filling it
with comprehensible information.
--dunerat
More information about the ffml
mailing list