On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 05:50:04AM -0500, David J Brooks wrote: > > The difference for you with untrained eyes is the double spacing after > > the dot instead of the standard single spacing. > > > > I was just curious if there's a reason to this or not. > > Back in the Jurassic era, when typewriters still roamed the earth, it was a > convention to leave a double-space following a period so that the reader > could more easily distinguish the end of a sentence. With the advent of word > processors (and proportional fonts) this double-spacing convention lapsed.
For those playing at home, this is called "French spacing": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_spacing_(English) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
