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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
- Subject: Re: The Correct Way To Write C if-Statements
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.200637.20480@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
- References: <140742@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1992Nov6.225622.25460@dg-rtp.dg.com> <craigh.721691551@cserver>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 20:06:37 GMT
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- In article <craigh.721691551@cserver>, craigh@cserver.plexus.com (Craig Heilman) writes:
- > [M]y style manual (Webster's Standard American Style Manual) says:
- > "In typewritten material, two spaces follow a period that ends a
- > sentence. ... In typeset material, only one space follows this
- > period."
-
- In typeset material, spaces don't occur in nice integer units, so "one
- space" versus "two spaces" makes no sense. (Unless it's being typeset
- monospaced, of course.) The space after a period (or more precisely,
- at the end of a sentence - not all periods end sentences) *is*
- generally wider than the space between words in that sentence, though.
-
- der Mouse
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