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.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Smith" <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:51 AM
Subject: RE: Language and English
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hans Franke [mailto:Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de]
>
> > 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 beautifier' for DOS which
> > inserted these (for my eyes) stupid spaces. Well, I guess CC is not
> > only the hardware :=)
>
> I think that it's supposed to help the eye differentiate between space
between words and space between sentences.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>
>
> Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
> Amdocs - Champaign, IL
>
> /usr/bin/perl -e '
> print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
> '
>
>
>
Received on Fri Jan 04 2002 - 12:45:30 GMT
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