> >Supposed to be two spaces between the end of a sentence and the > >start of the next. Looks proper to me. > > Back in the days of manual typewriters and mono-spaced fonts, perhaps. > > These days, with justified text and word processors, it has fallen out of > favour.
I even agree with that opinion: two spaces is not useful for anything rendered by a reasonably advanced system. However, there's a corollary to that: any such system will already be able to deal with either one or two spaces between sentences, and normalize it to something that is correct for that system. i.e., to anyone using such a system, having two spaces will not matter a whit. People not using such a system will appreciate the two spaces. (Well, we old geezers who learned that way, anyway. Perhaps there is a more modern opinion that is actually a back-formation resulting from the use of more capable smarter display systems.) -mm- PS: after we work this out, let's work on programming languages and religion :-) PPS: for another pedantic opinion, I've always wished this list were named something more representative than "discuss-list" mm
