Language and English

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Fri Jan 4 11:49:08 2002

Yes, this come from old typewriter formatting. It is also visually
pleasing. The colon also takes two spaces.

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Hans Franke wrote:

> > When I was in the 8th grade, one of the courses we were required to take was
> > in typing. I've never gotten particularly good at it, but I did learn that
> > a period at the end of a sentence is followed by two spaces, for example.
>
> Thank you very much. So it seams there is a 'school' forcing this in
> the US .... and I always wondered why some people add two spaces after
> a period. There's even a very old 'text beautyfier' for DOS which
> inserted this (for my eyes) stupid spaces. Well, I guess CC is no
> only the hardwarae :=)
>
> Gurss
> H.
>
> --
> VCF Europa 3.0 am 27./28. April 2002 in Muenchen
> http://www.vcfe.org/
>

M. K. Peirce

Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island

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