On 11/13/2014 04:34 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > 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. > You have to consider that with John, everything is another opportunity to talk about TeX, which as we know, he is quite fond of.
Greg
