- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:33:14 -0500
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "Thomas A. Fine" <fine@head.cfa.harvard.edu>, www-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 13:14 +1300, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > I believe that the habit of typing two spaces after the end of a sentence > was originally a workaround for lack of proportional letter spacing. A lot of many people believe this, although in fact the practice, sometimes included in the term French Spacing, predates the typewriter. It's particularly helpful in setting work with a lot of abbreviations, such as Mrs. These can be especially confusing at the end of a sentence. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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