On Sunday 21 April 2002 06:28 pm, you wrote: > On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 09:27, Randy Kramer wrote: > > Michael wrote: > > > I thought double spacing was outdated anyway in modern business > > > communications. Still personal preferences are what life thrives on. > > > > Hmm, I'm on the old side, but I never saw any reference to double > > spacing being outdated except in Internet / HTML / computer related > > discussions -- it makes me suspect that somebody decided putting two > > spaces after the punctuation ending a sentence would be too difficult > > for a computer to deal with (or didn't even know it was the established > > practise) and simply ignored it. (KISS?) > > I agree with your suspicions Randy; with the qualification that perhaps > it had a little more to do with people than computers. > > > That suspicion sort of destroys my faith in computers / programmers. > > (Well, it might have been destroyed before then ;-) > > > > (sorry, not intended to sound like a rant) > > > > (Two spaces are still used in all the business correspondence I send and > > receive.) > > I've also been using two space sentence endings in all my emails, > correspondence, business letters, reports, etc etc for years because it > is the correct method, and I've never had a problem with "rivers of > white". I note that most other recent books that I have here on the > shelves also have the correct sentence end spacing also; including > Kernigan and Ritchie's "The C Programming Language." > > This two space controversy sounds much like what I've heard this before; > newer is good, old is bad. Only the new concepts should exist, and are > not compatible with the stuff that evolved from the past; GUI's are more > advanced than CLI's; music of this generation is better than the last > generation's crap, blah blah blah ad infinitim. For me, some sentence > separation is easier to read as opposed to run-on sentences. > > > Randy Kramer > > LX
Something else to consider. When a letter crosses my desk, my first urge before reading is to throw it away. Traditional appearance could well make the difference. Us old timers are comfortable with 2 spaces. Then there are days when everything goes in the round file. After all, if it's really important, they'll try again. Lee
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