On 11/13/2014 12:56 PM, john Culleton wrote: > When the typewriter > came along the instructions were to put two space > characters after a full stop to emulate this > practice.
You do know, don't you, that the typewriter was invented in the 1860's, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) was probably the first book written using a typewriter? All of this long predates everything in your history.
