Language and English

From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Mon Jan 7 08:09:46 2002

> On Jan 4, 18:33, 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.

> It's a recognised standard in English.

Well, from some other messages I got the idea that there are still
some more differences between Englisch and US typing rules.

> The idea is to make sentence spaces larger than word spaces.
> Curiously, it's not common in the printing profession, and not at
> all in other languages.

Well, Bear Stricklins Mail (Danke) added quite some flesh to this.

> I imagine Hans was taught that it's "wrong", since I imagine
> he learned to type in German.

I was well aware about special (manual) handling for spaces on
old typesetting machinerie, but never bridged the gap to typewriter
usage. And no, I've never been told it's wrong - the question
simply never came up at all. At least for every day typing (yes,
I did take two years a typin' class at school, but all wat's left
is the proper use of the space key :) there was only two trules
about spaces (AFAIR): Three (or one, sinplified) at the beginning
of a new paragraph, and one after each punktuation (and none before).
We been told about some odd formats for accounting, but I realy don't
remember.

As for myself, at some point I startet to insert a space before
all exklamation and question marks to make them better visibly,
but that's against any 'common' style.

Gruss
H.

P.S.: In my opinion this facts are _very_ on topic, because it
      touches a lot of the heritage computing took from typesetting
      and typewriteing.

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