On Jan 4, 11:45, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> If the period took up as much space as another character, that would be
> true, but with mail readers that perform kerning as though they were
trying
> to prepare text for publication, the period gets short-schrift, so to
speak,
> and often is nearly invisible. The practice of inserting two spaces was
> inherited from the requirement for it in the printing/publishing
industry.
Actually, it has long been normal to use the same space between sentences
as between words in printing.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Fri Jan 04 2002 - 17:41:51 GMT