On Sun, 01 May 2005 18:02:14 -0700 "frank gaude'" <tanzen at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Well, from my long experience, I'm 73 years old, the two spaces applied > with use of non-proportional typewriters of yesteryear. Such went to one > space when DTP came into popular being and proportional spacing for type > in word-processors was used for most bodies of text. Looking over > typeset books of long ago, even then we could see the single-space > between sentences, really an em-space or en-space. > > A well-coded DTP problem should have no problems with double spacing > between sentences and line-break wraps. > > Bart Alberti wrote: > > >I have been told vehemently that TWO spaces should be put between sentences > >and just as insistently that such is old hat. If it affects appearance then > >it counts as a problem as it would since the line breaks inappropriately. > > > >Bart Alberti The Chicago Style manual has a discussion about all this. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.html and see the One space or two entry Owen
