Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 11:15 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
On 17/09/12 20:58, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Does opensuse have a file wiping tool that attempts to sanitize any of the above? No, the only "solution" for that is media destruction. (i.e a hammer) Pedantic nitpick with the English, well Latin actually. That 'i.e' should be 'e.g.'.
I will nit pick one further. There are spaces between the abbreviated words (as between all words), and a comma after the two abbreviated words, i. e., "e. g., "
Source: Publication Guide of the American Psychological Society, who are rather pedantic on these issues. I suspect similar publishing guidelines would suggest similar usage. Even LibreOffice gets this correct in the spell checker. Will wonders ever cease?
I have to disagree with half of that. I have never seen spaces used in these abbreviations. Certainly after individual abbreviated words in a sentence but not in a sequence like e.g. or i.e. My style manuals are all at home, so I have to rely on my memory but I did spend quite a while writing documents with professional editors, so I'm fairly confident. I have worked with both American and British style guides and never seen a space used. LibreOffice doesn't comment regardless of whether I use a space or not Looking at the apastyle website, I see they do NOT use a space themselves as towards the bottom of http://www.apastyle.org/learn/quick-guide-on-formatting.aspx Do you have an exact reference? I agree that a comma after the abbreviation would be usual, though it is frequently omitted. Dylan wrote:
British English usage would omit the space and possibly the middle full stop: e.g., eg.
Omitting the middle stop is commonly done in informal English but is not usual in formal style guides, AFAIK. And of course my substantive original nitpick was that a hammer was one example of ways to destroy a disk, rather than the only possible method. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org