- From: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@kozea.fr>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:36:14 +0100
- To: liam@w3.org
- CC: robert@ocallahan.org, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "Thomas A. Fine" <fine@head.cfa.harvard.edu>, www-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
Le 11/01/2013 01:33, Liam R E Quin a écrit : > 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. FWIW, (having never really studied typography,) I never heard about spacing between sentences being different from any other space in French (my native language.) The first I heard about double spaces was about writing English in computers. But maybe French Spacing (with capitals) is a thing unrelated to the French language? -- Simon Sapin
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