On 14/09/2013 6:42, Michael Everson wrote:
On 14 Sep 2013, at 02:30, Stephan Stiller <[email protected]> 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This tradition is no longer current in the US.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/
See http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324 which claims with numerous
examples that Michael Everson is totally wrong.
Jim Alllan
