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- From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
- Subject: The Correct Way To Space English (was: The Correct Way To Write...)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.000257.3302@sq.sq.com>
- Followup-To: poster
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
- References: <1992Nov6.225622.25460@dg-rtp.dg.com> <craigh.721691551@cserver> <1992Nov15.200637.20480@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 00:02:57 GMT
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- > > "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.
-
- No, not generally. This style, which I happen to like, is mostly
- seen in:
-
- 1. Books some decades old
- 2. Text typeset with troff
- 3. Text typeset with TeX
-
- For people reading this newsgroup, it's much more likely than it is
- for people in general that text they read will fall in one of the
- last two categories. This is way off topic for the newsgroup, anyway;
- followups are directed to email, or you might start a new thread in
- comp.text, or maybe sci.lang or alt.usage.english.
-
- I agree that two spaces are usual and preferable in monospaced text.
- --
- Mark Brader "I don't care HOW you format char c; while ((c =
- SoftQuad Inc., Toronto getchar()) != EOF) putchar(c); ... this code is a
- utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com bug waiting to happen from the outset." --Doug Gwyn
-
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