RE: Valentine's Pi - Epaper Love

DAB — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:48:38 GMT

Hi Leslie,

The new twitter language reminds me of my early programming days when everything was limited to six characters.

It gave me a perfect excuse for my bad spelling as I just got into the habit of dropping vowels. The words still made some sense, but I was so glad when computer languages allowed us to use real words and sentences.

You are making great progress on your epaper display and your tie into to wireless.

It looks like you are teaching this old dog new tricks. [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-9aad2df7-50d9-4c6f-96e2-344404b8e9bd/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

I probably need to learn this new technology, but finding time is really tough.

Thanks

DAB

RE: Valentine's Pi - Epaper Love

johnbeetem — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 01:38:01 GMT

I wouldn't worry about the spacing. Use what you like. I was taught to double-space after a period, and not doing it looks strange to me. OTOH, I don't like extra spaces after colons and semicolons. But it's my writing, and if someone doesn't like the way I formatted it they can go ahead and reformat. Chacun a son goût.

Speaking of which, a buddy of mine looked into this circa 1993 and discovered that the questionable practice of single spaces after a period is called "French spacing". This caused him to remember a Mark Twain quote: "It's un-American, it's un-British... it's French."