Quote/Cytat - Michael Everson <ever...@evertype.com> (Sat 14 Sep 2013
12:42:50 PM CEST):
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This tradition is no longer current in the US.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.
Typesetter used variable width space, and some of them put a longer
space after a full stop. Cf. Knuth's TeXBook and the discussion of
\frenchspacing parameter.
Regards
Janusz
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Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bień - Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra
Lingwistyki Formalnej)
Prof. Janusz S. Bień - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department)
jsb...@uw.edu.pl, jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl, http://fleksem.klf.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
