If memory serves (touch typist since 1963) it was assumed to be universal. I had a good deal of correspondence with folks across the pond and never thought twice about the double space post-sentence. I think with the advent of first the IBM Selectric and much later the Apple/Postscript combination, somewhere in there it sort of went away!
Love the new package BTW! Tre retro :) On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:42 AM, <msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Urs Liska wrote: > > > that may not be standard for proportional typesetting (even LaTeX's > > > standard 1.33 factor is no longer popular) but the double-width > sentence > > > space was universal in typewritten texts when typewriters were common. > > > > > > > Are you sure this is not related to language and culture? I can't recall > > It may be. I was talking about English-language typewritten texts. > > -- > Matthew Skala > msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before principles. > http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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