On 14 Sep 2013, at 02:30, Stephan Stiller <stephan.stil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This means that this dot will then need to be followed by two spaces when it >> is used as a sentence-ending period. > > This tradition is no longer current in the US. Though it's obvious there are > still plenty of middle and high school–level teachers and college-level > writing instructors teaching this in the US, not knowing that books and > periodicals in the US haven't been using two spaces after a sentence-final > period for a long time. Books never used it. The tradition in typing was developed to assist typesetters to navigate the typewritten text they were setting. The typesetters never put two spaces after a full stop. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
