July 24, 2007
3:23 a.m.
Talin <talin@acm.org> wrote:
In PEP 9 there's a requirement that PEPs must follow the "emacs convention" of 2 spaces after a period. (I didn't know this was an emacs convention, I thought it was a convention of people who used typewriters.)
If the PEP is displayed as HTML, then one or two spaces after a period in plain text might not matter; any browser that I've bothered to check visually merges space characters unless they are intermixed/replaced with non-breaking space ( ). If ReStructured Text converts to non-breaking space, then they matter. In terms of text text editing, I think that as long as one is consistant within a document, that's good enough. - Josiah